What is recorded here

Leagun holds a roofless chamber where two tall portal stones still frame the southern entrance, leaning toward Streamstown Bay instead of collapsing into the grass. The rear presses against living rock, suggesting the builders borrowed the hill itself to carry the dead weight. People may have walked this slope for centuries, placing jars or bones beside the matched gates before forgetting the names of everyone buried inside.

On a S-facing slope overlooking Streamstown Bay. This tomb, fairly well preserved but lacking a roof, consists of a large single chamber (L 3.5m, Wth c. 1.7m) aligned NNW-SSE, with its rear set close to an escarpment of outcropping rock. The W side of the chamber is formed of three stones and the E side of two stones. The entrance, at S, is marked by two tall, well-matched portal stones set inside the line of the adjoining sidestones. A single set stone stands to S of W portal. Traces of a mound survive to S and W. While it can be classified as a portal-tomb, the possibility of it being the rear chamber of a court-tomb cannot be excluded. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

Portal tomb, dating to the Neolithic period (c. 4000–2500 BCE). Its alignment and position on a prominent slope suggest it was a significant ritual or burial site within a local prehistoric landscape.

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