What is recorded here
No visible trace remains in Cashel, leaving the court tomb existing only through human memory and lost landscape. That absence is not a failure of record but a reminder that much of Mayo has been taken, buried or forgotten. The survey still gives the place a shape, while the land keeps its own secret.
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: 2 January 2012
Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as early ritual and burial sites, reflecting communal social structures and funerary practices in prehistoric 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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