What is recorded here
Aillemore is a quiet court tomb, not a hidden chamber or finished museum piece. Its stones may have marked burial, memory or boundary long before writing gave the place a name. What is missing is not nothing; it is the part that resisted measurement.
See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964)
Date of upload: 6 January 2012
Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as early communal burial sites and reflect the megalithic traditions of west Ireland.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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