What is recorded here

The Altars and Altar Bush mark a Neolithic tomb and Bronze Age cairn in Carrick, though human memory has blurred their exact boundary. People may have stacked stones, burned offerings, or buried ancestors beneath soil that later disappeared under grass and forgetting. The names preserve more than survey coordinates because they carry the shape of lives that touched the place before records existed.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MEGALITHIC TOMB & CAIRN: THE ALTARS or THE ALTAR BUSH (O.S. memoir site, unlocated). Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Neolithic passage tomb and cairn, likely dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in its association with early megalithic funerary traditions in the region, reflecting communal ritual practices of prehistoric communities.

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