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Court tomb in Glenulra

Court tomb

What is recorded here

Glenulra holds a court tomb where ancient hands stacked stone before written memory began. The chamber still waits beneath its long ridge, unchanged since people first walked that valley. What they buried inside has vanished, but the shape of their effort remains.
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: 30 December 2011
Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as some of the earliest monumental expressions of social and ritual activity in Ireland.

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