What is recorded here

Six stones descend like giant fingers across The Tulach, joining granite roundness to schist edges in a line stretching sixteen metres toward Tully Lough. They sit among older field walls and hidden structures, waiting for people brave enough to walk the ridge at dusk. Finn Mc Cool himself may have planted them, local story claims, but the stones do not need his name to feel alive. They still point south, still shrink into distance, still invite the watcher to measure himself against their patience.

On the level summit of The Tulach, a prominent ridge between Tully Mountain and Tully Lough. Known as Finn Mc Cool's Fingers, it comprises six stones, aligned N-S, and measuring 16m overall. The three northern stones are rounded granite boulders, decreasing in height from N to S (1.8m, 1.2m, 0.7m). The southern stones, which also decrease in height from N to S (1.6m, 0.7m, 0.5m), are, in contrast, rectangular slabs of schist. A possible seventh stone lies c. 0.6m further to N. The row is part of a complex of monuments on the hill which includes a pre-bog enclosure c. 100m to NE (GA010-005----), an unclassified stone structure c. 35m to SW (GA010-004----), and a series of pre-bog field walls (GA010-006----). (Killanin 1954, 98-9; Ó Nualláin 1988, 195; Gibbons and Higgins 1988a) 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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