What is recorded here

Cloghdermot is an unclassified megalithic tomb where a large roofstone still bridges a collapsed eastern-western chamber inside a ten-metre circular cairn. The chamber sits off-centre in the cairn, as though its builders had more room and less patience for symmetry than later visitors. Sheep may have walked across that roofstone since before written history, turning a place of the dead into ordinary ground for the living.

On a tract of flat land in an area of gently sloping pasture. The tomb is eccentrically incorporated in a circular cairn (D c. 10m) which has been reused as a CBG (GA006-005----). A large roofstone rests above a collapsed chamber, aligned E-W, represented by at least four stones. The remains are insufficient to allow classification. (Melvin c. 1971, 8; Ó Nuallain 1989, 142) 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

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic or early Bronze Age. Its incorporation into a later cairn suggests reuse and continuity of sacred or ceremonial significance in the landscape.

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