What is recorded here

Twin elongated mounds still stand on a small rise above Baile an Mhothair, their grassy ridges holding earth, stone and the faint trace of a buried stone face. One is slightly larger than the other, as if two people were set down together rather than one alone. They may have marked graves, but they could also have marked a boundary, a gift or a warning. Either way, the island remembers them because they refused to flatten.

On a small rise just S of Baile an Mhothair, Inis Meáin. A pair of elongated grassy mounds composed of earth and stone. The S mound (E-W 15.8m, N-S 6.6m, H 1.2m) is slightly larger than the N mound (E-W 10.8m, N-S 7.4m, H 1.15m). Traces of a possible stone facing are visible between them. In 1933, they were described by Mac Domhnaill (Topgr. Files, NMI) as partly disturbed 'twin grave mounds'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Neolithic passage tomb; dates to the 4th–3rd millennium BCE. The paired mounds suggest a ceremonial or funerary landscape associated with early farming communities in the region.

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