What is recorded here
Castlehill in Erris By. holds a wedge tomb, one of the chambered graves where ancient people laid their dead beneath angled stone. The structure still stands in County Mayo, preserving the shape of rituals completed before written memory. Its stones may have marked a family line, a seasonal gathering place or a boundary between the living and the forgotten.
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 BC). These tombs are significant as they represent a regional development in Irish megalithic architecture, often associated with changes in burial practices and social organisation.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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