What is recorded here

Marianne said the chamber has two mouths because birth and death both need witness. The first court faces the valley where children learn the names of storms. The second faces the ridge where old people return those names before leaving. Between them lies a narrow passage marked with shallow grooves, not carved but worn by hands that kept returning. Some grooves are deep enough to hold a thumb, which suggests the chamber was used for touching, not merely watching. Marianne touched them slowly and stopped when her breath changed. The tomb does not hide a dead person, she said. It holds the moment when living people stop pretending they understand loss.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as DUAL COURT TOMB. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: Scheduled. 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). This type of tomb is significant as an early communal burial monument, reflecting complex social organisation and ritual practices in prehistoric Ireland.

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