What is recorded here

Cistvaen is a grassed-over ringfort in Galway, its stone entrance still marking the southeast edge while field walls cut through the northern and southern arcs. The site has lost much of its shape, but the surviving drystone curve and narrow opening suggest a place where people once drew a clear boundary around their lives. Whether it served as a home, a marker or a forgotten stronghold, the earth has not released it entirely.

In grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 56m) defined by the arc of a grassed-over drystone wall from NE to SE. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S, to W of which only slight traces of the enclosing element are visible. Stone-lined entrance (Wth 2.5m) at SE. (de Valera and Ó Nualláin 1972, 28; Claffey 1983, 156) 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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