What is recorded here

Larganboy East holds a wedge tomb where ancient people laid their dead beneath angled stones. The structure still stands in County Mayo, marking a time when death belonged to the earth and memory depended on stone. Its shape suggests urgency, as if the builders knew the field would change but the deadline would not.

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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 changes in funerary practices and social organisation.

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