What is recorded here

Court tomb in Ballintur, County Down: Neolithic hands built a stone chamber where the dead could watch the living world turn. It stands scheduled, untouched, holding the patience of people who measured time in seasons rather than years.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB. 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 early form of megalithic funerary architecture associated with communal burial practices in prehistoric Ireland.

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