What is recorded here

Cairn stands as a dome-shaped mound of limestone blocks in a roadside field in County Galway, Ireland. Thirty metres north, loose piles of stone scatter across the ground, possibly the denuded remains of similar cairns. The area belongs to a larger group of wayside markers, suggesting people once walked this route and marked it with stone.

In a roadside field c. 100m E of a similar group of cairns (GA110-057----). A subcircular cairn of limestone blocks (2.6m by 2m, H 1.4m) of dome-shaped appearance. Some 30m to N are a number of loose piles of stone scattered on the ground; possibly the denuded remains of similar cairns. 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

A wayside cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age; its significance lies in its potential association with funerary or ritual practices and its location within a cluster of similar cairns.

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