What is recorded here
An extended female inhumation in a slab-lined grave was found in 1992 on Dernish Island. Eight roughly circular flat stones formed a mandola-like ring of glory around the skull of the skeleton. It is considered to date to the early 1st millennium AD. (Buckley, Buckley and McCormick 2002).
Compiled by: Paul Walsh
Date of upload: 6 August 2015
A Neolithic inhumation burial, dating to approximately 3000–2500 BCE, notable for its mandola-like stone arrangement around the skull, reflecting early ritual practices in western Ireland.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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