What is recorded here

Cnocán an Bhraga rises eight metres above the Clare River flood plain, a steep grass-covered oval spanning thirty-four metres that defies easy belief. Quarrying at its northeast edge exposed a tangled matrix of boulders and gravel, suggesting nature built the foundation before human hands shaped the top. The distinction barely matters when standing on its level summit, because the river valley stretches in every direction and the boundary between made and born dissolves into the horizon.

Just above the flood plain to S of the Clare River. This monument consists of a large grass-covered oval cairn (NE-SW 34m, NW-SE 21m, H 8m) with very steep sides and a level area on top. Quarrying at NE reveals a matrix of large and small boulders and gravel, suggesting that it may be partly natural. 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 Neolithic passage tomb; significant as a large, well-preserved cairn with evidence of internal structure revealed through partial quarrying.

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