Audleystown Court Tomb

The Audleystown Court Tomb is a Neolithic dual court tomb located in Ballyculter parish, near the southern shore of Strangford Lough in County Down [1]. The tomb was built around 3900–3500 BCE [1]. The Audleystown court tomb has a double courtyard-double burial chamber layout, which is unique to Ireland [1]. In dual-court tombs a court and a gallery are placed at each end of the cairn, as in Audleystown and Cohaw [1]. In 1952, as part of the Archaeological Survey of Northern Ireland, A.E.P Collins, conducted the first archeological excavation of the Audleystown tomb and published his findings in 1954 [1]. After the 1952 excavation, the burial galleries were filled with sand to protect the monument [1].