What is recorded here

Barrow stands in flat Galway pasture, a thirty-seven-metre circle holding a six-metre mound that still rises three metres above the grass. Its central depression admits human hands, though time and patience erased the identity of those hands. A forgotten cairn watches from two hundred metres east, keeping the unusual distance between dead and memory.

In flat pastureland and tillage. A circular barrow (D 37m), in fair condition, composed of a large central mound (D 6.25m, H 3.1m max. at S) encircled by a substantial fosse and external bank of earth and stone. The bank is extant for only c. 4m at NW. A large central depression in the mound suggests sturbance. A cairn (GA071-035----) lies c. 220m to E. 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

Circular barrow, likely Bronze Age. Its construction with a central mound, surrounding fosse, and external bank indicates a ceremonial or funerary function, typical of burial monuments from this period.

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