What is recorded here

Wedge tomb in Carrowleagh stands in County Mayo as a chambered burial place where ancient people laid their dead beneath angled stone. Its shape still points inward like a knife cutting time, inviting wonder about the hands that lifted it and the families who watched it seal.

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: 3 January 2012

Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). This type of tomb is characteristic of western Ireland and reflects evolving funerary practices during the transition from megalithic to smaller communal burial structures.

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