What is recorded here

Red sand and old stone. The wedge tomb in Béal Deirg Mór belongs to County Mayo, Ireland, and still keeps its shape beside the living land. People may have placed the dead there when the soil felt permanent and the sky felt close. Its name resists forgetting, even when its history disappears.

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Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). These tombs are significant as they represent a regional variant of megalithic burial monuments in Ireland, often associated with early agricultural communities.

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