What is recorded here

Cairn is a vanished burial mound on the rough moor beside Loch na Scainimhe, remembered through Layard’s 1897 description and local stories linking it to the builders of the nearby island cashel. It may have marked the lives of the people who raised that remote stone structure, giving the bleak waterside a crowded human history beneath its emptiness.

On rough open moor close to S end of Loch na Scainimhe. Layard (1897, 378) noted 'a stone mound' in this area 'which I instantly recognised as a grave, and on looking about several more were seen in the neighbourhood'. According to a local source they were reputedly 'the graves of the people who built the “castle” ', i.e. the island cashel (GA077-022----) close to S shore of the lake. Not located. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Burial cairn, likely dating to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its association with a cluster of graves noted by early archaeologists, indicating a possible ritual or funerary landscape on the moor.

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