What is recorded here
Within the N half of the interior of a ring-barrow (GA095-087----). McCaffrey (1952, 36-7) recorded a 'number of small stones serving as markers for modern graves' or 'children's burials'. Several upright limestone boulders are visible but no particular alignment is discernible. The ring-barrow was probably reused as a children's burial ground. (Killanin and Duignan 1969, 395)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 14 August 2019
A Neolithic ring-barrow with later interments; significant for its reuse in modern or historic times for children's burials.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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