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COURT TOMB: THE KING'S RING in Clontygora

COURT TOMB: THE KING'S RING
COURT TOMB: THE KING'S RING in Clontygora
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King Flann struck the first stone and the ring appeared, not built but remembered into grass. He walked inside once and returned changed, speaking a language that sounded like rain on stone. The people stopped asking questions that night. They laid their dead within the ring and waited for the kingdom to breathe through them.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as COURT TOMB: THE KING'S RING. 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.
Court tomb, Neolithic period. The King's Ring is a significant example of early megalithic architecture, likely used for communal burial and ritual practices.

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Photo: Kieran Campbell · CC BY-SA 2.0