What is recorded here

Lessanny holds a court tomb where ancient people shaped stone into a chamber for the dead. The structure still stands in County Mayo, preserving a ritual older than written history. Its plain stones exclude modern praise but they exclude forgetting because they remain visible when memory fails.

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Court tomb; Neolithic period. This type of tomb is significant as an early form of megalithic funerary architecture associated with communal burial practices in western Europe.

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