What is recorded here

Annagh held a thirty-five-metre stone mound until road widening cut away its southern half in 1977. The damage opened a six-slab cist, large enough for a person to crouch inside, pointing neatly toward the horizon. Three slabs still lean in the scarred earth while the rest vanished, perhaps carrying bones and memories into the same relentless progress that killed the mound itself.

On gently undulating farmland immediately NE of a byroad. Originally a stony circular mound (D 35m, H 5.5m), the SW half was completely removed in 1977 during road widening. This revealed a cist composed of at least six slabs, only three of which remain in situ, though now partially slipped. These indicate a chamber (Wth c. 1.5m, H c. 1.8m ext.) aligned approximately NE-SW. According to local information, a quantity of bone was removed from the cist. 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

A Neolithic burial mound, dating to approximately 4000–2500 BCE, containing a stone cist; significant as a rare surviving example of a prehistoric funerary monument in the region, despite partial destruction.

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