What is recorded here

Indicated is a grassed ring-barrow in County Galway, a flat-topped mound twenty-one metres across where people were once buried. It still holds a shallow depression near its centre and a few trees at the north edge, while the surrounding bank has vanished without a trace. The land may have swallowed the boundary, but the barrow remains visible in the undulating grassland.

In undulating grassland. This ring-barrow is defined by a grassed-over flat-topped roughly circular mound of earth and stone (diam. c. 21.5m; H 0.9m). A shallow circular depression (diam. 1.5m) lies just W of its centre and a few trees are growing on it at N. According to local information, it was known as a burial place and it was formerly surrounded by a fosse or bank. No visible surface trace of the latter survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 18-19, 116, no. 27) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 November 2019

A Neolithic ring-barrow; significant as a rare and early form of burial monument in the Irish landscape.

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