What is recorded here
Death in Ballycasey More bypassed grand tombs and went straight into the earth. A pit swallowed the body, soil replaced ceremony, and the field forgot the name within a season. That simplicity belongs to people who understood the end without decorating it.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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