What is recorded here

Kiltierney holds a Neolithic passage tomb later reused as an Iron Age ring barrow cemetery, meaning death itself returned to the same ground across centuries. People may have built the first chamber for one kind of eternity, then came back with new rites, new tools and new names for the dead. The layering suggests continuity rather than forgetting: a place remembered enough to use again.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PASSAGE TOMB reused as IRON AGE RING BARROW CEMETERY. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; IRON AGE. Recorded protection: Scheduled. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Neolithic passage tomb, later reused as an Iron Age ring barrow cemetery; significant for demonstrating long-term ritual and funerary use of the site across multiple prehistoric periods.

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