What is recorded here
Eskeragh holds a court tomb where ancient hands stacked stone to mark the dead. The structure still stands in County Mayo, waiting for people to remember that burial and belief belonged there long before modern roads. Its stones do not explain themselves, but they refuse to be forgotten.
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: 3 January 2012
Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as early ceremonial and burial sites, reflecting complex 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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