What is recorded here

No one knows who placed the girl, the cremated woman or the child inside that narrow limestone box before the sand quarry broke it open in 1931. The esker had hidden them for generations, perhaps longer, waiting for heavy wheels and hungry men to tear the ground apart. They were not forgotten; they were simply patient, buried beneath a landscape that kept moving like breath.

Discovered in 1931 while quarrying for sand in an esker, this rectangular slab-built short-cist (L 1.1m; Wth 0.6m; H 0.48m) was aligned NE-SW. It was composed of five limestone slabs set on edge, one slab forming the N, E and S sides while the W side was made up of two parallel thin slabs. It contained the crouched skeletal remains of an adolescent female adult, a cremation representing an adult female and an adolescent. The burials were accompanied by an inverted vase, two flint scrapers and fragments of the skull of a child (Cahill and Sikora 2011). No visible surface trace survives. Another cist may also have been found in the vicinity of this one in 1929 - see GA084-045001-. (Waddell 1975, 14; 1990, 92) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

A rectangular slab-built short cist, likely dating to the Early Christian or Bronze Age period, found within an esker context; its construction and alignment suggest a small funerary or ritual use, typical of early Irish burial practices.

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