What is recorded here

South Cairn on Slieve Gullion is a Neolithic passage tomb where ancient people built a chamber for the dead long before written history. The stones still stand in State Care, holding the shape of a house made for memory rather than living. Ailleach Bearas gives the place a name that sounds like breath moving through rock, suggesting the mountain itself still remembers the hands that shaped it.

The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as PASSAGE TOMB: SOUTH CAIRN; AILLEACH BEARAS HOUSE. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. Recorded protection: State Care. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to the prehistoric period, associated with the broader Slieve Gullion complex, which includes the cairns of Keenoge and Loughmacrory. Its location within a significant ritual landscape highlights its importance in early ceremonial and funerary practices in Northern Ireland.

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