What is recorded here

Caherfurvaus holds a broken wedge tomb where two tall stones tilt across level pastureland. Their chamber measures two metres long and one point four wide, but field stones still spill three metres beyond either end as if the dead refused to stop moving. People may have laid ancestors along that diagonal line, trusting the rock to hold what flesh loses. The tomb no longer stands complete, yet its stones still mark the shape of a forgotten ritual.

In an area of level pastureland and outcropping rock. The tomb consists of a chamber (L 2m; Wth 1.4m), aligned NE-SW, formed of two sidestones which decrease in height from W to E. The interior of the chamber is filled with field stones which extend some 3m beyond it to the E and W. The remains are probably those of a wedge-tomb. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 16 August 2019

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its construction and orientation are typical of wedge tombs found in the Irish Midlands, reflecting regional funerary practices of the period.

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