What is recorded here

Quarrying in 1934 broke through a gravel hillock to reveal a man crouched inside a narrow slab box, his head pointing northeast and his body folded as if waiting for a door to open. The cist measured less than a metre long, yet it held an adult male so tightly that his bones still describe the shape of the chamber. Men were cutting stone for their own purposes when they exposed someone else’s buried life, forcing a ordinary field to become a place of death and memory.

In a gravel hillock in gently undulating countryside. Discovered in 1934 during quarrying, it consisted of a short slab-built rectangular cist (NE-SW; L 0.9m, Wth 0.45m, H 0.5m), with a cobbled floor and roofed with a capstone. It contained the crouched skeleton of an adult male lying on its left side with the head towards NE end. Only a slight hollow and some narrow flagstones mark the site (Shea 1936a, 24-33; Waddell 1975, 19-20; 1990, 94). 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 small Neolithic or Early Bronze Age cist tomb, likely used for individual burial. Its construction and context reflect early funerary practices in lowland areas, though its wider significance is limited due to lack of detailed records.

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