What is recorded here

Leachtmore is a grassed-over cairn on a Galway pasture rise, its north-west edge torn open by quarrying. The remaining stones form an imperfect circle fifteen metres across, low enough for cattle to walk over without noticing. Whatever the cairn marked has slipped from memory, leaving only a shallow scar in the land where human hands once stacked stone against forgetting.

On a rise in pastureland. This monument consists of a poorly preserved subcircular grassed-over cairn (NNW-SSE 15.5m, WSW-ENE 14m, H 0.8m), the NW section of which has been quarried out. 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

A subcircular cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age, partially quarried and now grassed over. Its significance is primarily as a local example of early funerary or ritual mound construction.

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