What is recorded here
Cromleck is a Neolithic court tomb on the Atlantic fringe of County Mayo, where huge stones still mark a chamber built for the dead before human memory began. It sits quietly near Breastagh, small enough to be overlooked yet named in the old Welsh and Breton word for a stone structure, suggesting the place spoke to people long before modern maps existed. The chamber may have held ancestors, treasure or ceremony, but its true purpose has faded into the bog and sea air. What remains is a room without walls, waiting for someone to imagine who sat inside it when the world was young.
See linked document (MA004-012----_01.pdf) 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).
Attached image is courtesy of Richard Crumlish:
MA004-012----_01.JPG Court tomb viewed from W
Date of upload: 30 December 2011
Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period. It represents an early form of megalithic tomb construction characteristic of west Ireland.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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