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Mound in Eochaill (bar. Árainn)

Mound

What is recorded here

At S end of a small pasture field immediately S of GA110-107001-. A pair of grassed-over elongated mounds of earth and stone 2m apart. The larger mound (L 13m, Wth 6m, H 2.5m) forms a right angle with the smaller (L 9m, Wth 6m) and a quantity of recent field clearance stones crown both mounds. (Robinson 1980) 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 presence of two aligned mounds suggests a ceremonial or funerary complex, typical of early megalithic traditions in western Ireland.

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