What is recorded here

Graveslab in Loughrea, County Galway, is a dead man's chair, not a grave. That is the whole trick the name still pulls. A lab for living, set beside the field where dead men keep their shapes, is the kind of place that makes you curious about the difference between remembering and pretending to remember.

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