What is recorded here

Cairn is a burial place on a Galway farm where a modern-looking mound of grassed stones still covers four old slabs. Its flat top spans nine metres, rises a little over a metre, and keeps a central depression marked by one upright stone. People may have moved the chamber twice, once to bury someone and once to take something away, leaving behind a shape that still points to the loss.

On a slight rise in farmland. This roughly circular flat-topped cairn (base diam. c. 9m; top 5m; H c. 1.25m) is built of grassed-over stones. According to the landowner, it is ‘modern’ but it covers four stone slabs. McCaffrey (1952, 19, no. 32a) noted that in a depression (L c. 3m; Wth 1.8m; D 0.8m) in its centre, a stone (L 1.2m; H 0.7m) set on edge was indicative of the ‘remains of a plundered cist or chamber’. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 November 2019

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