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  • ME02200 - CORSTOWN (Fore By.) - Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

    Address: CORSTOWN (Fore By.), Meath
    Classification: Featured Monuments
    Coordinates: 53.7447 | -7.11231

  • ME00980 - NEWGRANGE - Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

    Address: NEWGRANGE, Meath
    Classification: Featured Monuments
    Coordinates: 53.6948 | -6.47564

  • ME00504 - MOYNALTY - Church

    Address: MOYNALTY, Meath
    Classification: Featured Monuments
    Coordinates: 53.7889 | -6.88632

Megalithic tomb - passage tomb

A round mound, usually surrounded by a kerb of large stones, enclosing a burial chamber, usually with a corbelled roof, which is entered by a passage, usually lintelled. Many tombs have side and end recesses opening off a central chamber, resulting in a cruciform plan. Cremation was the predominant burial rite in passage tombs which primarily date from 3300 to 2900 BC though some simpler tombs in Carrowmore, Co. Sligo have produced radiocarbon dates suggesting use even earlier in the Neolithic, c. 4000 BC.

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