What is recorded here
Fálach is a place where the old tomb still stands, though its chamber has broken or vanished. The stones remain scattered across the field like a sentence interrupted mid-word. They may have marked a burial, a boundary or a warning to travellers, but the purpose has faded with the names of the people who set them. What is left is the shape of intention, waiting for someone patient enough to listen.
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, approximately 3500–2500 BCE. These tombs are significant as early examples of communal burial and megalithic construction in Ireland.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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