What is recorded here

Marblehill Grave Yard is a kidney-shaped burial platform on a slight rise in County Galway, originally circular with a twenty-point-three-metre diameter. Stones marking graves break through the sod cover without clear alignment, suggesting people were laid to rest wherever space allowed rather than according to a visible grid. The low bank still defines the edge, while the uneven interior preserves the possibility that ordinary lives ended and entered the earth beneath hilly pastureland.

On a slight rise in hilly pastureland in the demesne of Marblehill. This burial ground, originally circular in plan (diam. 20.3m), now consists of a kidney-shaped platform which is defined by a low bank. Its inner face is unclear but slight traces of a possible revetment are visible. The interior is uneven and a number of stones marking graves break through the sod cover. They do not follow any clear alignment. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 3 September 2019

A circular prehistoric burial mound, likely dating to the Neolithic or Early Bronze Age, indicating early communal burial practices in the region.

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