What is recorded here

Barrow is a worn circular enclosure in Galway grassland, preserving a central platform surrounded by a wide fosse and external bank. Local tradition still calls it a burial ground and points to a hidden spring at its edge. The earth has kept its shape long enough to suggest that people once marked death, water and memory in the same place.

In level grassland. Poorly preserved circular enclosure (D 37.8m) comprising a central platform (D 17.1m int.) encircled by a wide fosse and external bank. The surface of the platform is uneven and there are faint traces of a possible internal bank from S to W. There are also faint traces of a possible causeway across the fosse at SSE and the tradition of a spring well in its base at SE. The monument is locally referred to as a 'burial ground'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

A Neolithic barrow, dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE, representing an early form of ceremonial or burial monument. Its circular enclosure and central platform suggest ritual significance, though its poor preservation limits detailed interpretation.

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