What is recorded here
Megalithic tomb on Castlehill, Erris, County Mayo. No separate visible chamber or intact wedge chamber is recorded in the linked description. The survey treats it as a wedge tomb, not as an ordinary burial mound.
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). These tombs are significant as they represent a regional development in Irish megalithic architecture, often associated with changes in burial practices and social organisation.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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