What is recorded here
Cairn is a small, grassed-over stone platform on a south-facing Galway slope, possibly an ancient house or burial mound. It sits in the corner of a field, dish-shaped and quiet, with faint earth banks stretching thirty metres south. Whatever it marked, it has surrendered its shape to grass and time, leaving only a subtle swelling in the land.
On S-facing slope in undulating grassland. A circular platform (D 8.8m, H 0.75m), in the corner of a field, composed mainly of small grassed-over stones. The top is dished in profile. Possibly a house or, less likely, a barrow. A number of low grassed-over earth and stone banks are also visible c. 30m to S.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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