What is recorded here

Barrow in County Galway was an Early Iron Age ring-barrow where cremated bones, bronze fragments and over eighty glass beads lay inside a circular mound and fosse before quarrying erased it in the early 1980s. It may have marked a family line, a boundary dispute or a place where the living kept company with the dead. Its loss is not merely archaeological; it is a reminder that ordinary ground can contain irreplaceable memory.

In low-lying pastureland. Excavated in 1970 by E. Rynne (pers. comm.), this circular ring-barrow (diam. 11m) comprised a low earthen mound (diam. 5.5m) encircled by a fosse and external bank. Three concentrations of cremated bones were uncovered: in the central mound, in the fosse at SW, and in the fosse at NE. Fragments of bronze and over 80 glass beads accompanied the bone at NE, suggesting an Early Iron Age date for the barrow. The monument was destroyed as a result of quarrying n the early 1980s and no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 August 2019

A Neolithic ring-barrow, dating to approximately 2500–2000 BCE, characterized by a central mound surrounded by a fosse and external bank. Such monuments are significant as early funerary and ceremonial structures, reflecting communal burial practices and social organization in prehistoric Ireland.

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.