What is recorded here
One chamber and long low walls still stand in Moing Eiriún Theas. Build that much stone and you must have believed the dead would return, or at least be worth keeping apart from rain and forgetting. The court tomb is not a display cabinet. It is a claim made with muscles and patience, and the claim still stands because nobody has answered it with a shovel.
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 some of the earliest ceremonial and burial structures in Ireland, reflecting early communal organisation and ritual practices.
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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