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Court tomb in Pollnagawna

Court tomb

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Pollnagawna holds a court tomb where ancient people shaped massive stone into a chamber for the dead. The structure still stands in County Mayo, witnessing centuries of rain, grass and forgotten ceremony. It is not a modern monument but a medieval or older human answer to loss, built before written memory and never demolished.
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: 6 January 2012
Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as early ritual and burial sites, reflecting communal social structures and funerary practices in prehistoric Ireland.

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