What is recorded here

Barrow is a small bowl-barrow on a wooded Galway rise where an illegal excavation in 1980 exposed a crouched adult skeleton aligned east to west. The mound stands less than 1.4m high and about 6.7m across, so the dead person may have lain barely a hand’s breadth below the grass. That little earth held a whole life, and the whole rise still keeps it company.

On the summit of a densely wooded rise. During the course of an illegal excavation in 1980 into this small, roughly circular, overgrown earthen mound (diam. c. 6.7m; H < 1.4m) an unprotected crouched adult skeleton (possibly male), aligned E-W, was found. The mound was described as 'bow-barrow type burial mound' (Topgr. files, NMI). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

Bowl barrow, likely dating to the Early Bronze Age (c. 2000–1500 BCE). This type of burial monument is significant as it reflects early funerary practices and social structures in prehistoric Britain.

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