What is recorded here

Esker burial in Derryglassaun Ed, County Galway. A hundred-metre gorse hillock on the highest ridge, quarried at the south-east for a silage pit. Local memory claims skulls and bones flooded out during the digging, scattering what the earth had held. The ridge keeps its dead beneath farm work, exposing itself only when cut.

On the highest point of a low esker, c. 125m W of an earthwork (GA059-030----). A prominent circular gorse-covered hillock (D c. 100m) has been quarried away at SE and a silage pit is built into the quarried area. According to local information, a great deal of human skulls and bones were uncovered during this work. 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

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