What is recorded here
Court tomb in Lecarrowntemple, County Mayo, Ireland. Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin documented it in Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume II. County Mayo. Dublin: Stationery Office, 1964. The court tomb holds dead people from before written history. Its stones still stand where human hands placed them.
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: 30 December 2011
Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as early ritual and burial sites, reflecting communal social structures and funerary practices in prehistoric Ireland.
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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