What is recorded here

Lissatrim is a subcircular earthen barrow on a prominent Galway hill, its bank still standing nearly five metres thick around a hollow centre. It has watched Cappataggle from above for centuries, unchanged while villages and centuries turned beneath it. A person may have stood inside that hollow at dusk, looking out over grassland and distance, knowing the earth had been shaped to hold what mattered.

On a prominent hill in grassland, c. 500m SW of Cappataggle village. A subcircular barrow (N-S 13.2, E-W 11.5m), in fair condition, consisting of an earthen bank (Wth 4.9m max., Helm ext), best preserved from E through S to SW, which encloses a slightly hollow interior. 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 subcircular Bronze Age barrow; it is a type of early mortuary monument characteristic of the Irish landscape. Its location on a prominent hill suggests a ceremonial or ritual significance in the local prehistoric landscape.

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