What is recorded here

Tully Mountain in County Galway is no longer a mysterious lost place because its summit still holds a large oval cairn of angular stones and boulders above the blanket bog. The real wonder is that people have kept going to that exact ridge, climbing through wet terrain to mark, measure or remember something worthy of stone. A small chamber may have sat inside the mound, though no longer visible, giving the hill a hidden heart beneath its open frame.

On the summit at NW end of Tully Mountain. Large oval cairn of angular stones and boulders (NW-SE c. 12m, NE-SW c. 8.5m, H c. 3.5m), its base enveloped by blanket bog. The OS 6-inch map (1898) shows a trigonometric point here. Another cairn (GA009-029----) stands at SE end of summit. (Gibbons and Higgins 1988d, 64, 66) 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

A large oval cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age, situated on a mountain summit. Its location suggests a possible ceremonial or funerary function, though specific significance remains unrecorded.

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