What is recorded here

Cloghincha is a thirty-metre-wide stone island in a Galway turlough, holding a rectangular hiding place near its summit where duck-hunters may have crouched in shadow. The changing water reveals or drowns the path to it, forcing everyone to read the lake instead of walking a fixed road.

In a turlough c. 15m to the S of a channel of the Dunkellin River. This crannog (diam. 30m; H 3m) is defined by a circular tree-covered cairn of stones, which is delimited by a low drystone wall of large blocks. Near its summit, a roughly rectangular enclosure (L 3m; Wth 1.5m) constructed of drystone walling, one course high, may be a modern feature possibly associated with 'duck-hunters' who used the site for concealment (McCaffrey 1952, 43, no. 1). (Redington 1916, 57-8) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 January 2020

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