What is recorded here

Clochan marks at least ten vanished rooms inside Dún Chonchúir, their walls stripped during late nineteenth-century work but their footprints still visible against the rampart. They may have been kitchens, store chambers or small dwelling places for the people who kept the fortress alive. What is gone has not stopped shaping the ground; every stone removed left a shadow that can still be read.

In the interior of Dún Chonchúir (GA119-054----). Described in OS Letters as 'several cloghauns…built against the wall, but they are all destroyed' (O'Flanagan 1927a, Vol. 3, 259). Westropp (1895, 268) noted that they 'are now cleared out', probably during the reconstruction work carried out by the Board of Works in the late 19th C. The foundations of at least ten buildings are now visible: (a) the fragmentary remains of two structures at the base of the rampart wall directly to N of the entrance; (b) a penannular drystone structure (NNE-SSW 4m, ESE-WNW 3.8m, H c. 1m) in NW quadrant; and (c) a cluster of seven conjoined structures (Ds 2.5m to 4.5m) directly inside the rampart in SW quadrant. (Anon. 1886a, 301) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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