What is recorded here

Mote is a ring-barrow on a Galway esker, its flat-topped mound still standing beside a forgotten rath. Men may have cast stones around a dead friend or marked a boundary for herds, while later ploughs and feet smoothed the northern ditch until it vanished. The barrow keeps its shape despite the loss, waiting for someone to walk its circle and ask what it protected.

On an esker ridge, c. 40m to the SW of a rath (GA104-008001-). This circular ring-barrow (diam. 15.7m) is definded by a low flat-topped mound (diam. 6.5m; H 1m) encircled by a fosse and external bank of earth and stone. The centre of the mound has been disturbed and no visible surface trace of the fosse and bank survive from NW through N to SE (SMR file). (McCaffrey 1952, 24, 208, no. 26; 1955, 221; Killanin and Duignan 1967, 190) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 August 2019

Circular ring-barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age. Its construction with a central mound, fosse, and external bank reflects a regional funerary tradition associated with elite burials in upland or esker landscapes.

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