What is recorded here

Ballynastangford Lower in County Mayo, Ireland holds a court tomb, a megalithic structure built from large stones. The survey of the megalithic tombs of Ireland, volume II for County Mayo, written by Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin and published in Dublin by the Stationery Office in 1964, records the site. The tomb stands as a chamber where ancient hands placed heavy stone, shaping a space for the dead long before written memory. Its court form suggests a threshold between the living field and the hidden chamber, a boundary marked in rock rather than words.

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 some of the earliest communal burial monuments in Ireland, reflecting early social organisation and ritual practices.

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