What is recorded here
Death and memory twisted together beneath the rath. Children lay buried five metres east while the narrow stone chamber waited for bodies or secrets. You can still drop through the western breach into darkness that smells of old rain and forgotten breath.
Within the NW quadrant of a rath (GA098-065----). This drystone-built Man-made underground passage (L 1.8m; Wth 1.5m) runs ENE-WSW. Access is gained via a modern breach at its WSW end. A linear depression (L 4.3m Wth 1.4m) suggests that it extended further from its ENE end. A children’s burial ground (GA098-065001-) lies c. 5m to the SE. (O’Flanagan 1927, Vol. 1, 499)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 24 January 2017
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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