What is recorded here

An Cloigeann holds a portal tomb where huge stones lean together like a mouth waiting to swallow a name. It has stood in County Mayo since before written memory, likely guiding the dead into darkness while the living watched rain strip the grass above. The structure is not a ruin but a completed act of human will, shaping weight and shadow into a chamber for what flesh cannot keep.

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: 6 January 2012

Portal tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as early examples of communal burial and megalithic construction in Ireland.

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