What is recorded here

Thirty years of rain and cattle trod the cairn at Drumacoo into a shallow grassy disc, yet the cross-base still stands at its north-west edge. The monastic complex gave up its shape slowly, losing one stone or shadow at a time while people kept passing within sight. What remains is small enough to walk around in a minute, but it belongs to a place where worship, memory and forgetting all happened together.

On a gentle SE-facing slope, c. 165m to the ESE of the church (GA103-118001-) at the monastic complex at Drumacoo. This poorly preserved subcircular cairn (13.5m NW-SE; 12.5m N-S; H < 2m) is defined by grassed-over stones. Field-clearance rubble has been dumped on its S half. A curving drystone wall surrounds the monument from SW to W. A cross-base and fragments of its shaft (see GA103-118008-), and a possible leacht (GA103-118013-) are visible at NW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 December 2016

A Bronze Age cairn; its proximity to a monastic complex suggests possible later reuse or ritual continuity in the landscape.

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