What is recorded here

Dolmen is a wedge tomb buried under a twelve-metre mound in Galway farmland, where thorn and bramble have strangled its eastern gallery. Three northern stones and two southern stones still mark the narrow chamber, but displaced slabs and dumped field rubbish suggest the living long ago stopped treating death as sacred. What remains is a broken box forgotten by the people who built it, waiting beneath the soil for someone to remember the shape of loss.

In gently rolling farmland, some 4km to the NW of Portumna. Overgrown with thorn and bramble, this tomb has been used as a dump for field stones. The remains comprise a gallery (L 4m; Wth 1m), aligned approximately E-W, represented by three stones at N and two at S. Two outer-wall stones stand to the S of the gallery and a displaced slab lies at its W end. The structure is embedded in a mound (L 12m; Wth 8m average). (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 18–19) See linked document with details from Ruaidhrí de Valera and Seán Ó Nualláin, Survey of the Megalithic Tombs of Ireland. Volume III. Counties Galway, Roscommon, Leitrim, Longford, Westmeath, Laoighis, Offaly, Kildare, Cavan. (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1972). Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 August 2019

Portal dolmen; likely dates to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its orientation and construction reflect early megalithic traditions in Ireland, though its current condition obscures more specific significance.

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