What is recorded here

Annaghkeen holds a buried chamber where an adult male and child rest together beside an Irish Bowl, proving the gentle Galway slope served death before it became pasture. Costello opened the mound in 1924 to find that trust sealed in stone, while nearby markers still scatter across the field like forgotten sentences. The boys may have belonged to one family, the girl to another, yet the dead keep company regardless of the lives they led.

On a slight NW-facing slope in gently rolling pastureland. A low partially destroyed earthen mound (ENE-WSW 21.8m, NNW-SSE c. 16.5m, H 0.9m). When examined in 1924 (Costello 1924a, 110), it was a substantial circular mound (D 15m, H 2m) with a cairn-like core, beneath which was a cist (N-S; L 1.2m, Wth 1m) standing on the old ground surface. This contained the unburnt bones of an adult male and a child, an Irish Bowl and an oddly shaped pebble. A second cist lay at NE edge of the mound but without any capstone. This was reported as having contained 'some fragments of bones'. A cairn (GA055-001001-) stands 410m to NW and an anomalous stone group (GA055-011----) stood 110m to WSW. (Costello 1924b, 173; Waddell 1975, 11-12; 1990, 89-90) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

A low earthen burial mound, likely dating to the Early Christian or medieval period; its partial destruction limits assessment of wider significance.

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