What is recorded here

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 monuments during that long season of monument building. Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin recorded the site in their 1964 Mayo survey, preserving details that newer work has not always repeated. The word cromlech has largely left formal use, yet it remains in the local name, carrying a ghost of older understanding into the present day.

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: 3 January 2012

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period. It is part of Ireland's megalithic tradition and reflects early communal burial practices in the region.

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