Court tomb in Carrownakib

On a low knoll amidst gently rolling pasture, 1.2km from E shores of Lough Corrib. The monument is very ruined. It consists of a gallery (L 5.5m), aligned roughly E-W, represented by two entrance jambs at E, two sidestones on N and a backstone at W. A single courtstone flanks N jamb, and a stone in a similar position adjoining the opposite jamb may also be a courtstone. The overall length of the gallery would indicate that it had at least two chambers. The structure is incorporated in a subrectangular mound (L 12.5m, Wth 10m). There is an unclassified megalithic tomb (GA055-070----) c. 130m to NW and an anomalous stone group (GA055-069----) c. 160m to NNW. (Aldridge 1965, 15; de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 12; Ó Nualláin 1989, 118) 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 See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972).

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). These tombs are significant as some of the earliest ceremonial and burial monuments in Ireland, often associated with communal rituals and early agricultural societies.