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?PORTAL TOMB in Clontygora

?PORTAL TOMB

What is recorded here

Clontygora holds a Neolithic portal tomb where ancient hands shaped stone into a chamber for the dead. The structure still stands in County Armagh, marking a time when people believed the boundary between life and death could be built rather than imagined.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ?PORTAL TOMB. Recorded period: NEOLITHIC; PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Portal tomb; Neolithic period. It represents an early form of megalithic monument associated with burial and ritual practices in prehistoric Ireland.

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