What is recorded here

Ballyutoag holds a Neolithic court tomb where ancient people shaped stone long before written history. The chamber still stands scheduled in County Antrim, preserving a place where human hands may have gathered, buried or marked the boundary between the living and the dead. Its stones do not need a modern name to be remarkable because they carried life before naming began.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB: BALLYUTOAG. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Court tomb, Neolithic period. This tomb type is significant as an example of early megalithic funerary architecture in Ireland, reflecting communal burial practices and social organisation of Neolithic communities.

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