What is recorded here

Barrow is a ring-barrow on a Galway esker, its central mound no taller than a kneeling man and its outer bank erased from south through west to north. The missing earth does not read as loss but as completion: the hill absorbed the barrier and became the whole shape. A smaller barrow may have touched it on the west, suggesting two claims made on the same ridge before memory began.

On a prominent esker hillock in pastureland. This circular ring-barrow (diam. 10.2m) is defined by a central mound (diam. 3.2m; H 0.2-0.6m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. No visible surface trace of the bank survives from S through W to N. McCaffrey (1952, 27, 237, no. 39a; 1955, 224), noted ‘the possible remains of a smaller tumulus [see GA104-180001-] of the same type contiguous to, if not conjoined to’ the monument ‘on its western side’. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 August 2019

A ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age, characterized by a central mound within a fosse and external bank; such monuments are significant as they reflect early funerary and ritual practices in the Irish landscape.

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