What is recorded here

West Galway farmers built a narrow stone trench beneath a ringfort, perhaps to hide grain, people or memory when storms or invaders came. They fitted heavy lintels across the top, then buried the entrance as the land changed. The cave no longer opens, but its two shadowed chambers still lie locked inside the earth, waiting for someone brave enough to dig through forgotten soil.

In W half of a ringfort (GA057-117----). A drystone-built Man-made underground passage, L-shaped in plan, which has been infilled and is now inaccessible. Two sections are discernible: the 1st (L 5.5m, Wth 1.1m) runs E-W. There is a gap to E between it and the 2nd section (L 4m, Wth 1.43m) which runs on a N-S axis. One roof lintel is visible in both parts. 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

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