Gowlaun

In gently undulating marshy grassland. A poorly preserved circular barrow (D 21.9m) consisting of a central mound (D c. 10m, H 0.7m), fosse and external bank. A field wall cuts the monument at W and E, to N of which it has been levelled. A CBG (GA028-015001-) is associated. 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 Neolithic circular barrow, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE, representing an early form of burial monument associated with communal funerary practices. Its significance lies in its rare preservation of a fosse and external bank, offering insights into Neolithic earthwork construction techniques in the region.