What is recorded here

Currantar-muid is a circular grassed-over stone cairn on a natural rise in County Galway, reaching thirteen metres across and standing one and a half metres high. Cattle may have grazed around it for centuries, their hooves packing the soil while people forgot the name that gave the stones their shape. The grass hides the boundary between human intention and animal traffic, forcing you to wonder whether the circle was made for the dead, the living, or the mountains themselves.

On a natural rise in pastureland. This monument is a circular grassed-over stone cairn (D 13.35m, H 1.8m), in fair condition, with traces of disturbance at a number of points. 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 circular stone cairn, likely dating to the Bronze Age; its significance is primarily archaeological as a surviving example of funerary or ritual monuments in the region.

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