What is recorded here

Cairn holds four limestone markers spaced twenty-five metres apart on a Galway terrace, with the tallest rising one and a half metres in a clean cone. The others lean like forgotten sentinels, smaller stones piled against uprights as if people kept returning to add one last chip. Between them scatter tiny stone heaps, perhaps dropped by travellers who believed the landscape was listening.

On a limestone terrace c. 100m SE of a similar group of cairns (GA110-045----). A group of four cairns lying c. 25m apart and varying in construction. The best preserved is conical in shape (D 2m, H 1.55m) and is constructed of limestone blocks. The others consist of limestone uprights around and against which are piled smaller stones. Numerous very small piles of stone are visible between the cairns. 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 or early Bronze Age wayside cairn; likely associated with ritual or funerary practices common in Atlantic Europe during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age periods. Its location among a group of similar cairns suggests a possible ceremonial or territorial significance.

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