DUAL COURT TOMB: AUDLEYSTOWN CAIRN in Audleystown — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Audleystown Cairn holds two separate death chambers inside one Neolithic boundary, forcing the dead to share a house but never a room. The distinction suggests two families, two claims or two rules of burial locked together under the same earth. People may have argued over whose bones belonged where, then stopped arguing because the stone already decided.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as DUAL COURT TOMB: AUDLEYSTOWN CAIRN. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: State Care. 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 Early to Middle Neolithic period (c. 3700–3000 BCE). It is significant as part of a rare and distinctive funerary tradition in Ireland, reflecting early communal burial practices and megalithic architecture.

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