What is recorded here

Indicated is a court tomb in County Mayo, Ireland, where ancient people shaped stone into a chamber for the dead. Its long passaging and solid chamber still stand as a witness to rituals lost before written history. The tomb belongs to a world where human life moved through landscape, memory and ceremony rather than written fact.

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

Portal dolmen; dates to the Neolithic period. It represents an early form of megalithic funerary architecture significant for understanding prehistoric burial practices in Ireland.

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