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Folly: Replica portal tomb in Mullaghdrin

Folly: Replica portal tomb

What is recorded here

Mullaghdrin holds a replica portal tomb built in modern times, not an ancient chamber lost to decay. The distinction matters because the stones are a deliberate gesture of memory rather than a forgotten archive. People may have placed them to honour the shape of older burial customs, giving visible form to what imagination alone might have carried. The tomb still frames the field, inviting wonder about the hands that arranged it and the story they chose to make permanent.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Folly: Replica portal tomb. Recorded period: MODERN. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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