What is recorded here

Inis Meáin, County Galway: a two-metre grave of upright stones faces the sea, said to hold a stranger the water threw ashore. The island kept him without asking his name, and the stones still mark the edge where the ocean gave up its dead.

Close to rocky seashore on SE side of Inis Meáin. Marked as 'grave' by Robinson (1980), it consists of a rectangular area (L 2.75, Wth 0.9m), aligned NW-SE, defined by stones set on edge. Reputed to be the burial place of a man washed ashore (info. T. Robinson and R Walsh). Not visited. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

A rectangular stone-defined burial, likely a cist, dating to the Early Christian or medieval period. Its location near the seashore suggests a possible connection to early monastic or coastal settlement activity in the Aran Islands.

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