What is recorded here

Indicated is a flat-topped cairn of angular stones on the summit of Knockacarna, still standing nineteen metres long beside Buffy Lough. Its eastern edge is disturbed, as if people chipped away or rebuilt it repeatedly across centuries. The west side remains sharp and deliberate, marking a boundary or honouring a name no longer spoken.

Prominently situated on the summit of Knockacarna, a low hill to NE of Buffy Lough. Sub-circular flat-topped cairn of angular stones (N-S 19.5m, E-W c. 18m, H 2.15m). There is a large area of disturbance on E side. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 381) 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

Neolithic sub-circular flat-topped cairn; significant as a prominent funerary monument on a hilltop, indicative of early ritual landscape use.

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