What is recorded here

Rooghan holds a court tomb where ancient hands shaped stone long before written memory. It is one of many such chambers scattered across Mayo, waiting for people to notice the shape of dead time. Stand beside it at dusk and the boundary between then and now becomes paper thin.

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: 2 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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