What is recorded here

Knockfadda holds a court tomb where ancient people placed their dead behind a long stone chamber. The structure still stands in County Mayo, waiting for human hands to remember what it preserved.

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Court tomb; Neolithic period (c. 3700–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as early ritual and burial sites, reflecting communal activity and social organisation in prehistoric Ireland.

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