What is recorded here

Court tombs are common in Mayo. Cloonboy is one of them. The region is dense with these old burial places, but this is the named site in that townland.

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.

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