What is recorded here

In 1937, diggers opened a low earthen mound in Carrowbeg North and found a male adult cremated inside an oval pit with a small bronze knife. The facts reveal a deliberate burial rather than a random heap, while the missing body and vanished markers remind us that much of the ceremony has already slipped away.

In undulating grassland. Excavated in 1937 (Willmot 1939, 121-40), the monument then consisted of a low earthen mound (D c. 12m) with a cairn-like core. It was surrounded by a substantial rock-cut fosse. The excavation revealed a layer of charcoal and cremated bone in the centre of the mound, beneath which was an oval pit-grave (L 0.9m, Wth 0.7m) containing the cremated remains of a male adult accompanied by a small bronze knife or razor. Four secondary unprotected skeletal burials were found in the fosse at N, one of which was accompanied by a bronze locket and twelve bone beads. A slight grassed-over mound marks the spot. (Waddell 1975, 13; 1977, 60; 1990, 90-92) 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 3000–2500 BCE, associated with early ceremonial and funerary practices in the region. Its rock-cut fosse and cairn-like core suggest a significant communal or ritual function.

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