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Cairn

Cairn, unclassified

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Tully Mountain rises 1172ft above Galway, carrying a small circular cairn of angular stone at its highest point. The flat top may hide an older shape beneath a later survey marker, suggesting human hands shaped the summit long before modern instruments measured it.
At the highest point of Tully Mountain (1172ft OD), c. 1.6km SW of GA009-030----. Small circular cairn of angular stone (D c. 6m, H c. 1-1.5m). Its top is at present flat but is probably truncated by the small 19th-c OS cairn and modern trigonometric point. (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 Neolithic cairn, likely dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE; its location on a prominent mountain summit suggests ritual or territorial significance.

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