What is recorded here

Three stones still stand on the ridge above Clifden Bay, a broken chamber pointing southeast as if waiting for someone to enter. The backstone leans inward against the sidestone, not fallen but resting, while faint traces of a buried mound disappear into the grass. Whatever life moved through that opening did so before written memory, and the tomb has kept its shape long enough to suggest the hand that placed it understood weight, direction and time.

On the crown of a low ridge near W end of the peninsula forming N side of Clifden Bay. The remains of this ruined portal-tomb, which opens to SE, comprise three stones: N portal and adjoining sidestone and, to W, the backstone which leans inwards and rests on the sidestone. Traces of a low mound survive to N and W. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 9) 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 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).

Portal tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). It represents an early form of megalithic funerary architecture significant for understanding prehistoric burial practices in the region.

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