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ROUND CAIRN & BURIAL in Loughkeelan

ROUND CAIRN & BURIAL

What is recorded here

One chambered tomb in Loughkeelan. Bronze Age hands built it, sixteenth-century hands still walked past it. A round cairn is not a monument to pride; it is a container for death. Build the chamber, cut the passage, strip the floor, lay the bones, bury the chamber, pile the stones. The shape is a room with no walls that anyone living can enter. The chamber holds the dead. The passage holds the living long enough to leave them behind. The cairn holds both.
The official Northern Ireland record identifies this as ROUND CAIRN & BURIAL. Recorded period: BRONZE AGE; PREHISTORIC; C16TH. The official map point was placed at the centre of the recorded archaeological site from the source map reference.
Bronze Age round cairn with burial, dating to the prehistoric period. Such cairns are significant as they provide insights into early burial practices and social structures in the region.

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