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MEGALITHIC TOMB: CROMLEACH in Cloghs

MEGALITHIC TOMB: CROMLEACH

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Under Cloghs sky, a cromlech holds its stones like a hand around a secret. Built in the prehistoric dark, it has watched fields change, storms pass, and people forget why they buried the dead so carefully. Touch one stone and you feel the weight of every forgotten name pressing back.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MEGALITHIC TOMB: CROMLEACH. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Megalithic tomb, dating to the Neolithic period. A cromlech is a type of prehistoric stone circle or arrangement, often associated with ritual or funerary practices, and is significant as a marker of early communal and ceremonial activity in the region.

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