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Barrow cemetery associated with Donegore Hill 'ritual landscape' in Tobergill

Barrow cemetery associated with Donegore Hill 'ritual landscape'

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Donegore Hill still stands in County Antrim, accompanied by a barrow cemetery that marked a prehistoric ritual landscape. People buried their dead beneath earth and stone while the hill watched over them. The distinction between life and death blurred at that place, where memory and myth entangled before written history existed.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as Barrow cemetery associated with Donegore Hill 'ritual landscape'. Recorded period: PREHISTORIC. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Neolithic barrow cemetery, dating to the prehistoric period, associated with the ritual landscape of Donegore Hill. It represents a significant ceremonial and funerary site linked to early agrarian communities in the region.

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