What is recorded here

Beagh enclosure stands near a ridge summit in County Galway, its subcircular form reduced to a faint southern bank and a tree-lined western scarp. Two small rectangular structures still abut the surviving earth, suggesting domestic life within a boundary now half forgotten. A ringfort waits one hundred and seventy metres to the west, while field walls cut through the northern and eastern edges, reminding the site that memory and occupation both require constant defence against erasure.

Close to the summit of a ridge in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved originally subcircular enclosure (N-S c. 50m) define by an earthen bank from SE through S to SW. A tree-lined scarp forms the enclosing element from SW through W to N and no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Two rectangular structures of earth and stone abut the bank: (a) at SSW (N-S 8m, E-W 4.5m) and (b) to SSE (N-S 5m, E-W 4m). Field walls cut the monument at N and SE. A ringfort (GA005-054----) lies c. 170m to WNW. 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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