Burial in Cooloo, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On an esker. This monument consists of three elongated mounds, of similar size (L c. 3.5m H c. 0.55), forming a triangle (Claffey 1983, 151). According to local tradition, they are the graves of 'chieftains' killed in a dispute over land (ibid., 105). II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA045-016

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