What is recorded here

Thirty paces from the church wall at Kiltiernan, a shallow dish of rounded stones waits beneath the grass. It is small enough to walk around in a minute, yet it has watched the slope since before the wall existed. The dip at its centre may be a forgotten hole or a failed memory, but the stones still hold their circle against the rain.

On a gentle W-facing slope, c. 25m to the SE of the enclosing wall of the ecclesiastical enclosure (GA103-139002-) at Kiltiernan. This circular grassed-over cairn (diam. 13.5m; H 1.3m), in fair condition, is composed of small well-rounded stones. The top of it is slightly dished, possibly indicating disturbance in the past. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 November 2019

A Bronze Age cairn, likely a funerary monument, associated with an ecclesiastical enclosure, indicating a possible continuity of sacred landscape use from the prehistoric to early Christian periods.

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