What is recorded here
Children died young in Ardfintan and were buried inside the ringfort, according to local tradition. The lisín has vanished without a visible trace, leaving only memory and shape behind. What is gone can still be entered through imagination, because the children are not lost when they are remembered.
Within a ringfort (GA041-001----). According to local tradition, there was a 'lisín' here but no visible surface trace survives.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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