What is recorded here

CarnToo is a Neolithic court tomb in Ballyboley, County Antrim, where ancient people arranged stones to mark death and memory before written history. The site remains scheduled and visible under the name CarnToo or the Abbey, preserving a chamber built for the dead long before Christian churches claimed the landscape. Its stones still hold the shape of that older ritual, waiting for human hands to imagine what they valued enough to bury beneath them.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB: CARNDOO OR THE ABBEY. 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. It is significant as part of the megalithic funerary tradition in Northern Ireland, reflecting early agricultural society's ritual practices.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.