Enclosure in Ticooly (o'kelly) — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

O'Kelly's enclosure in Ticooly, County Galway, is a fifteen-metre mound of grassed earth and stone beside a large rectangular pit. Early surveyors drew it as a broad circular enclosure, but later work revealed a smaller depression, suggesting the first map misread the shape of the land. The mistake turned a hollow into a wall, yet the mound still stands on the northern ridge like a forgotten chamber waiting to be remembered.

On a terrace on N slopes of a ridge. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 35m) but on 3rd ed. (1932), a small circular pit (D c. 20m) is shown. What is visible is a small mound of grassed-over earth and stone (D 15m), immediately N of which is a large rectangular pit. Possibly the result of a cartograhic error on 1st ed., showing a raised area rather than a depression. 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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