What is recorded here
In level grassland adjacent to a road. This poorly preserved and much-overgrown wedge-shaped children's burial ground (L 25m; Wth 14.5m) is defined by tentative traces of a bank along the S side. Within it numerous set stones indicate graves aligned E-W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 30 August 2019
Wedge tomb; likely dates to the Bronze Age. It represents a children's burial ground, indicating specialized funerary practices for the young in the ancient community.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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