What is recorded here

Megalithic tomb in Carrownakib is a broken gallery on a south-facing slope in County Galway, Ireland, where a tall western backstone still stands beside displaced field stones. The chamber has surrendered much of its shape to a farm wall and outhouse, yet the alignment remains clear enough to suggest that people once carried death into a narrow stone box while the low hill watched. A court tomb waits one hundred and thirty metres away, as if the landscape were saving a second chamber for later memory.

On S-facing slope of a low hill in gently rolling pasture. It comprises a gallery (L c. 2.2m, Wth 1.75m), aligned E-W, represented by two stones on N side, one on S and a tall backstone (H 1.8m) at W. There is an upright stone at E which appears to have been displaced from the tomb. A large displaced stone protrudes from the field stones which fill the chamber. The remains are incorporated into a field wall beside an outhouse. A court tomb (GA055-034----) stands c. 130m to SE. (Aldridge 1965, 15) 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

Neolithic passage tomb, dating to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. Its significance lies in its alignment and construction, reflecting early megalithic traditions in the region.

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