Grave

In a broad valley near W end of an isolated terrace of cragland, 1.6km S of Knockroe Hill. The monument, extant in 1960, has since been destroyed and no visible surface trace survives. It consisted of a long narrow gallery (L 8.2m, Wth 1.9m at W, narrowing to 1m at E), aligned roughly E-W. Five displaced slabs lay along it; these may have been fragments of the roof. The N side was represented by five orthostats and S side by seven; a backstone was in position at E end. Two outer wall-stones were exposed on N side and two on S side. The tomb was incorporated in a subrectangular mound (L 13, Wth < 8m). (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 12-13; 6 Nualláin 1989, 137) 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).

Neolithic long cairn; dates to the earlier part of the Neolithic period in Ireland (c. 4000–3000 BCE). Its location and form suggest it was part of a regional funerary tradition associated with collective burial practices and early agricultural settlement.