What is recorded here

Carrowmore in County Mayo holds a chambered tomb where giant stones still lean against the sky. The builders lifted heavy rock and aligned it for death, but they gave no warning about life. They assumed the dead would remain silent, closed and forgotten. They were wrong.

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Megalithic tomb in Carrowmore; Neolithic passage tomb. Part of a significant complex of early megalithic monuments in the Boyle/Lackan area, indicating early ceremonial or funerary practices in the region.

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