What is recorded here

The circular enclosure in Carheenard once measured 38m across, but ploughing and walls have cut through it until only a faint cropmark remains. What is left suggests a place where people drew a boundary around life itself, perhaps for ritual, residence or memory. The loss is not empty; it redirects attention to the shape that still resists forgetting.

In grassland. A circular enclosure (D 38m) cut at N and S by a field wall, and defined to W of this by a low scarp. Ploughing to E of the wall has destroyed the monument, save for a cropmark. A second wall cuts it at SW. 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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