What is recorded here

Quarries cut through memory before maps existed. Men digging gravel in County Galway struck a small stone box in 1900, narrow enough to hold a child, tall enough to hide a life. Inside lay an infant, an adult reduced to ash, and two vases that may have carried food, oil, or witness. The dead had been given a room, not a hole, and the room had waited under ordinary soil for people strong enough to hear it.

This rectangular slab-built short cist (L 1.2m; Wth 0.7m; H 0.6m) was discovered in 1900 during gravel quarrying. It is aligned N-S and consists of four slabs roofed with a capstone. It contained the remains of two unburnt skeletons, one of which was that of an infant, the cremated bones of an adult, and two vases (McCaffrey 1952, 225, no. 137; Waddell 1975, 8; 1990, 93). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 November 2019

Cist Grave, Cloghroak is a prehistoric stone cist, likely dating to the Early Christian or Iron Age period. Its construction and alignment reflect typical burial practices in Ireland during this time, representing a small but significant funerary monument.

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