What is recorded here

Carn is a low oval stone mound in County Galway, measured twenty-five metres long and thirteen metres wide, yet vegetation and forgetting have swallowed most of its shape. A modern field wall cuts across one edge while trees claim the rest, reducing ancient intention to a rumour beneath leaves. Whatever hands placed those small stones now answers only to wind and root pressure.

Some 240m SE of a similar monument (GA056-086----). A low oval mound (NE-SW 25.2m, NW-SE 13.3m) composed of small stones but much overgrown. It is delimited by a modern field wall at NW and elsewhere by trees and bushes. In SE sector, traces of a possible revetment (L 2m, H 0.3m) are visible. 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

A portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age. Its significance lies in its potential as part of a broader ritual or funerary landscape in the region.

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