What is recorded here

Enclosure in Earlspark is a small oval earthwork in County Galway, Ireland, hiding almost inside a hollow beside a pond and a larger rath. Its low bank still marks a narrow interior where stones gather in a central depression, suggesting people once shaped the land for a purpose now lost. The enclosure may have served as a shrine, a boundary marker, or a domestic space, but its exact role has faded with the lives that built it.

In rough pastureland, almost in a hollow c. 80m to the S of a rath (GA105-080----). There is a pond c. 40m to the SSE. Aerial reconnaissance in November 1987 (ASGAP 375:74) revealed this small oval enclosure (21m N-S; 16.5m E-W) which is defined by a low earthen bank (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.9m) best preserved from NE through S to W. The interior slopes gently to the S and a circular stone-filled hollow (diam. 5m) is visible towards its centre. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2019

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