What is recorded here

Five and a half metres of north-south gallery still stand at the western foot of Diamond Hill, divided into two chambers by a pair of crossing stones. The court is gone, the south end blurred into what may be an old field wall, and the whole structure leans into ruin rather than pride. Yet the chamber shape remains clear enough to imagine hands fitting stone to stone, bodies laid across generations, and witnesses forgetting the names while the hill kept the shape.

At W foot of Diamond Hill and within Connemara National Park. This tomb is very ruined and lacks a court. The remains consist of a gallery (L c. 5.5m) aligned N-S, divided into two chambers by a pair of transversely set jambs. There has been some interference with the structure at S end of the monument, and the stones here seem to represent the last vestiges of an old field wall. (Gibbons and Higgins 1988d, 65) 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. 4000–2500 BCE). Its partial remains, including a north–south aligned gallery divided into chambers, reflect an early megalithic funerary tradition significant for understanding burial practices and social organisation in prehistoric western Ireland.

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