
What is recorded here
On a rise in rocky scrubland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 32m) defined by a collapsed
drystone wall overlain by a later field wall. A field wall cuts across the monument from E to W. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA095-017001-) in the interior (Holt 1912, 226, no. 41). (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 300; McCaffrey 1952, 128, no. 28)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 1 December 2017
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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