What is recorded here

Badgers have torn open the eastern segment, scattering ancient bones across the earth while thorn bushes strangle the rest. The fallen western boulder still leans against the entrance, witnessing the clipping field walls and radial banks that divide the circle. What was buried there in darkness has been dragged into the light, exposed not by human hands but by the restless digging of beasts who know no history.

In an area of improved pastureland and rock outcrop. This poorly preserved roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 63m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone (Wth 2.7m; H 0.4m). It is clipped at W by a N-S running field wall and at S by an E-W running one. A well-defined entrance gap (Wth 1.9m) at N is marked by two large boulders, that to the W (L 1.4m; Wth 1.5m; T 0.3m) has fallen while that to the E (H 1.15m; Wth 0.9m; T 0.5m) is set just inside the bank. Radial banks, running roughly NE-SW and NW-SE, divide the interior into four segments of differing sizes. In the E segment a raised platform may mark a small burial area (GA104-015001-); it has been disturbed by badgers which have exposed numerous human bones. The monument is densely overgrown with thorn bushes. A house site (GA104-015002-) c. 12m to the E may be associated. (O'Doherty 1984; Prof. E. Rynne pers. comm. December 1983) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 January 2020

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