What is recorded here

Killanin and Duignan (1967, 317) identified the site as a small early monastery, though the earth and stone bank has since collapsed under rough grazing. The church remains in the southeast quadrant still stand beside a children's burial ground, waiting for someone to remember what the stones once held.

On a slight rise in rough grazing land. On inspection in March 1983 this poorly preserved subcircular ecclesiastical enclosure (c. 77m E-W; c. 72m N-S) was defined by an overgrown collapsed bank of earth and stone. A gap at NE appeared to be modern. The interior was also heavily overgrown but the remains of a church (GA103-137002-) lay in the SE quadrant and a children's burial ground (GA103-137003-) was also associated. No visible surface trace was noted of what appeared to McCaffrey (1952, 82, 197,no. 41) to be the 'remains of hut sites near the church' or the 'field walls' - internal divisions radiating from its walls. On re-inspection in June 2013 it was noted that some clearance had occurred, particularly in the S half of the enclosure resulting in damage to its inner face as well to the church. Recorded by Gwynn and Hadcock (1970, 392) as a 'small early monastery site.' (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 317) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 September 2019

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