What is recorded here
An Tinbhear holds a burial in County Mayo, though the details have slipped from public reach. The name itself sounds like a throat catching on a stone, fitting for a place where someone stopped moving and became part the earth. What is buried there may have been an ordinary life, marked only by a ditch and a mound now indistinct. The absence of a record does not erase the dead; it returns them to the older, quieter layer of the landscape where identity blunts into shape and shadow.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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Saint Patrick's Catholic Churchchurch/chapel · 1333 yd
Enclosure in An TinbhearEnclosure · 1545 yd
Site of Myles Barretts CastleCastle, unclassified · 1.2 mi
Old WatchhouseRuins · 1.7 mi
Inis DoireIslet · 1.8 mi
Portnacully BeachBeach / strand · 2.3 mi
Barr na CoilleadhMountain / peak · 3.0 mi
Glengad BeachBeach / strand · 3.9 mi
Derreens IslandIslet · 4.1 mi