What is recorded here

Five stones and one roof remain where a wedge tomb once held the dead. They sit on gentle pastureland beside the Killaclogher River, small enough to walk around in a minute, old enough that no name has survived to fill the chamber. The gallery points east-northeast, as if aiming at a sunrise that no longer needs witnessing. What is missing is not a flaw; it is the shape of time.

On gently sloping pakureland some 70m E of the Killaclogher River. The remains comprise a ruined gallery (L 2.4m, Wth 1.2m), aligned ENE-WSW, represented by three stones on N and two on S side which support a single roofstone. Although the monument cannot be classified with certainty, interpretation as a wedge-tomb would not be inconsistent with the present remains. (Claffey 1983, 154-6; Ó Nualláin 1989, 137) 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

Wedge tomb, dating to the Late Neolithic or Early Bronze Age (c. 2500–1000 BCE). Its orientation and construction reflect a regional tradition of funerary architecture in western Ireland.

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