What is recorded here

Leckanaloy Creek: A hundred metres from the Atlantic, a chamber tomb holds the valley’s oldest breath. Two portal stones lean east, a backstone braces the west, and a displaced roofstone still blocks the mouth like a door refused. Cremated bone and coarse pottery survived inside, proving the valley was never empty. The south portal tilts outward as if pushing back against forgetting.

In a shallow valley at the head of Leckanaloy Creek, c. 100m from the seashore. Described by de Valera and Ó Nualláin (1972, 14) as a small chamber (L 2.5m, Wth c. 1.8m), aligned ESE-WNW, composed of two portal-stones at E, a backstone at W and N sidestone. The S portal leans markedly outwards and a large displaced roofstone lies across the chamber. The remains of a small earthen enclosure (3m by 2.5m) abut its N side. Fragments of cremated bone and sherds of coarse pottery were recovered from the chamber. (McCaffrey 1952, 9; Waddell 1977, 58-9) See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 August 2019

Portal tomb; Late Neolithic period. Its location near the seashore suggests a possible relationship to early coastal settlement patterns in the region.

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