What is recorded here

Rathoonagh holds a court tomb where ancient hands stacked heavy stone before written history existed. The structure still stands in County Mayo, witnessing centuries of rain and forgetting. People may have gathered there to mark death or claim land, but their names vanished while the stones remained.

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 some of the earliest ceremonial and burial structures in Ireland, reflecting early communal social organization and funerary practices.

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