What is recorded here
Two small undressed stones, set 1.9m apart in a pasture field on Inis Mór, mark the grave of a drowned woman whose memory named the coast An Bhean Bháite. The alignment faces east and west, holding no ornament but a direction, as if the sea took her body and the land kept her shadow. People may have walked past those stones for generations, dropping a stone or speaking her name before crossing water, turning a burial into a warning and a warning into a ritual.
In a pasture field close to N shore of Inis Mór. The grave of a drowned woman, from whom this stretch of coast is named An Bhean Bháite (Robinson 1980). It consists of two small undressed stones set in the ground, 1.9m apart, and aligned E-W.
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
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