Cromlechs

Doonanarroo holds cromlechs where massive capstones still rest on upright slabs, marking a Neolithic burial tradition that stretched into the early Bronze Age. Farming communities cleared woodland and shaped stone into death chambers, then vanished into centuries of rain and grass. The word cromlech has largely left formal archaeology, yet it remains in the local name, preserving the old assumption that these were simple tombs rather than classified monuments. Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin recorded the site in their 1964 County Mayo survey, giving the stones a scholarly address after generations of oral ambiguity.