What is recorded here

An Bheithigh holds a court tomb where ancient hands stacked stone to mark the dead. The structure still stands in County Mayo, preserving a ritual older than written history. People may have gathered there to honour the departed, shape local identity or simply orient life around the land. The tomb remains a visible bridge between modern witness and forgotten human ceremony.

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: 30 December 2011

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as some of the earliest monumental expressions of social and ritual activity in Ireland.

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