What is recorded here
On a stony hillside overlooking Cuan Cill Chiaráin to E. Known locally as Tobar Muire, it consists of a small irregular hollow in a rock outcrop, with a drystone canopy (H 1.1m) on W side. A few metres NE is a rectangular patch (E-W c. 2m) of small boulders, possibly the remains of a 'leaba'. To N is a granite boulder (H 0.8m) which is said to have reappeared there after being thrown into the sea. (Robinson 1985, 55)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'.
From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA077-018
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- What survives
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