What is recorded here

Béal Deirg Mór holds an unclassified megolithic tomb where ancient hands stacked stone before written memory began. The chamber still waits beneath soil and grass, preserving the dead and the shape of the people who buried them.

See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964) Date of upload: 30 December 2011

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period. This tomb type is significant as it reflects early communal burial practices and megalithic construction in Ireland.

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