What is recorded here

Leabaidh Phadruig is an oval mound of stones, 7.5m long, built at the foot of an ancient ash tree beside a church in County Galway. The name means Patrick's bed, suggesting people once laid the dead or rested beneath that tree before the stones marked the spot. The ash has vanished, but the mound remains, holding the shape of a loss so old it became geography.

Some 6m NE of a church (GA029-111001-). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map by a tiny open circle and described in OS Letters (O'Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 204) as a 'large and very ancient ash tree, at the foot of which there is an irregular circle of stones called Leabaidh Phadruig'. What is visible is a flat-topped oval mound (L 7.5m, Wth 5m, H 1.5m) defined by a modern-looking drystone revetment. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448) 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

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