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COURT TOMB: OSSIAN'S GRAVE OR CLOGHBRACK in Lubitavish

COURT TOMB: OSSIAN'S GRAVE OR CLOGHBRACK

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Court tomb in Lubitavish, County Antrim, holds Neolithic bones beneath stones old enough to make human life feel young. Legend names it Ossian's grave, as if a poet could outlive history and wait beneath the soil. The stones remain scheduled and protected, preserving both the dead and the story told about them.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB: OSSIAN'S GRAVE OR CLOGHBRACK. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: State Care and Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Neolithic court tomb, dating to the late Neolithic period (c. 2500–2000 BCE). It is significant as part of a distinctive funerary tradition in Atlantic Europe, often associated with communal burial and ritual activity.

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