Mound in Eochaill (bar. Árainn)

Part of Baile na mBocht (GA110-162----), c. 40m S of an enclosure (GA110-129001-). A low grassy mound with a dip in centre (D c. 14m: info. J. Waddell). It may be the same as 'Stone and clay circle, 18 feet [c. 5.5m] in the diameter' referred to by Kinahan (1869d, 26, no. 13). Not visited. (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

A Neolithic burial mound, likely dating to the Early to Middle Bronze Age, associated with a wider ritual or settlement complex; its possible connection to a stone and clay circle suggests ceremonial or funerary significance.