What is recorded here

Some 100m NW of a ringfort (GA061-016----). A poorly preserved oval-shaped flat-topped earthen mound (E-W 7.6m, N-S 5m, H 1m) which has been quarried into at S. It is covered with hazel and thorn bushes. 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 Neolithic burial mound, likely dating to the 4th to 3rd millennium BCE, associated with early farming communities in the region. Its location near a ringfort suggests possible later ritual or symbolic reuse.

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