What is recorded here

An urn holding cremated bone was found during quarrying about 1909, three or four hundred yards south of a tumulus in Annaghkeen. The vessel sat just below ground level, mouth upwards, beneath a large flat stone. Whoever placed it there did not bury the dead deeply but set them beside the earth, covered like a pot of ashes waiting for rain.

Discovered during quarrying 'about 1909 1/4 three or four hundred yards' [c. 275-365m] S of a tumulus (GA055-006----). An 'Urn' [H c. 0. 3m] was reported to have been found just below ground level. It had presumably been placed in a pit, mouth upwards, as it is recorded to have contained cremated bone and been covered by a large flat stone (Costello 1924a, 118; Waddell 1975, 14; 1990, 90). 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

Urn burial, likely dating to the Bronze Age. Its significance lies in providing evidence of funerary practices associated with cremation and urn burials in the region during this period.

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