What is recorded here

Around 1980, men cutting a ditch in the hillock’s northeast flank struck bone and coffin handles, proving the grassy summit had swallowed adults long before the field took its current shape. The discovery did not belong to a single tragic night or named clan, but it changed what the ordinary landscape could hide. A burial ground stands there still, marked only by memory and the shape of the land, waiting for the next person reckless enough to dig beside it.

On the summit of a prominent hillock in otherwise level grassland. According to local information, there was a 'cemetery'here in which a number of 'fully grown skeletons', and parts of coffin furniture were found. The most recent discovery was that of a skeleton and coffin handles which were unearthed c. 1980 while making a cutting in NE part of the hillock. 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 or early Bronze Age burial ground, possibly containing cist burials or simple inhumations. Its location on a prominent hillock suggests ritual or ceremonial significance in the local prehistoric landscape.

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