What is recorded here

Half a metre of grass and stone marks a life so old it has become landscape. Three limestone fingers still break the surface, pointing at nothing human can measure. The dead person may have watched boats leave Inis Meáin or simply tended sheep along the track. Either way, the field kept the shape of their body long after the name disappeared.

In a field on N side of a track-way towards S end of Inis Meáin. Known locally as a grave (pers. comm. T. Robinson), it consists of a small rectangular grassed-over stony mound (L 3m, Wth 1.2m, H 0.35m) aligned NNE-WSW from which three small limestone uprights protrude. There is a small grass-covered cairn (D 1.3m, H 0.3m) c. 5m to NE. 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 small cist or simple burial mound, likely dating to the Early Christian or medieval period. Its significance is primarily local, though it may reflect early funerary practices in the Inis Meáin area.

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