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MEGALITHIC TOMB in Goward

MEGALITHIC TOMB

What is recorded here

Megalithic tomb in Goward, County Down. PREHISTORIC. Large stones, set before written record. People lifted stone, aligned it, and left a chamber for death or memory. The field around it has changed, but the tomb still points to human effort and reverence.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as MEGALITHIC TOMB. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Megalithic tomb; likely Neolithic in date. Its significance lies in representing early communal burial practices and megalithic construction in the prehistoric landscape of Northern Ireland.

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