What is recorded here
Carrowgarve South, County Mayo: a wedge tomb still standing, its stones leaning like a mouth about to speak. People may have gathered there at dusk, not to worship but to remember, dropping food or stones into the gap and walking home changed. The survey named it without mercy, yet the land kept it alive. Go at sunset if you can bear it; the tomb may go back what you give.
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
Wedge tomb; dates to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). This type of tomb is characteristic of western Ireland and reflects regional funerary practices during the transition from megalithic to smaller communal burial traditions.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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