What is recorded here

Number 79 on a 1937 list, the cist was destroyed in 1933 or 1934, yet a low mound still marks the pasture where one body lay beneath a large slab with candlesticks. Local memory suggests a priest, later re-interred in Kilconnell Abbey, but the candles imply a ritual so vivid it outlived the stones that contained it.

In pastureland. A list of 'Monumental stones between Aughrim and Killagh' was forwarded to the National Museum of Ireland in 1937 by Mr. J.R. Wade (NMI Topgr. Files). Most proved to be erratics and of no archaeological significance. Included on the list, numbered 79, was a 'Cist found and destroyed in 1933 or 1934.' On inspection in 1985 a low mound (3m N-S; 2.2m E-W; H 0.2m) was visible. According to local information, one body, accompanied by candlesticks, was buried here below a large slab. It was believed that the body might be that of a priest, who was re-interred in Kilconnell Abbey (GA086-001----). 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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