What is recorded here

Court tomb in Garraunbaun (ballynahinch By.) stands at the base of a steep north-facing slope west of Ballynakill Harbour, preserving a narrow chamber aligned northwest to southeast beneath a tall backstone. The entrance has largely vanished, leaving only a pitched-out stone and a stray slab to hint at the court that once framed the dead. People may have gathered there beside the harbour, carrying ceremony into a place where the hill still leans overhead like a witness.

At the base of a steep N-facing hillslope to W of Ballynakill Harbour. The monument, very ruined, consists of a chamber (L 3m, Wth 1.1m), aligned NW-SE, with a very tall backstone at NW and transversely set jamb at SE. The remains are those of the rear chamber of a court-tomb. A pitched-out stone, 2m to SE of the chamber, may be a displaced entrance jamb. A large slab lies to N, beside the monument. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Court tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 3500–2500 BCE). Its alignment and chamber construction reflect early megalithic funerary traditions in Atlantic Europe.

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