What is recorded here

Enclosure is a vast subcircular drystone ring on a Galway hillock, measuring one hundred and twelve metres across and holding a western entrance gap wide enough for nine carts to pass side by side. Local farmers once pulled human bones from its interior, suggesting the ring served as a massive graveyard rather than a simple livestock pen. A hidden underground passage lies twenty metres south, waiting beneath the grass like a forgotten throat. The modern field walls now cut through the ancient space, dividing what may have been a continuous chamber for the dead.

On a prominent hillock in undulating pastureland. This large subcircular enclosure (112m N-S; 100m E-W) is defined by a drystone wall, best preserved fromN to ENE. A modern field wall overlies the enclosing element from ENE to ESE; from ESE to SSE no visible surface trace of it survives. Cody (1989, 171-3, no. 30) noted an entrance gap (Wth 9.5m) at W, where the wall kinks inwards. This area is now obscured by overgrowth. The interior is crossed by several modern field walls, one of which overlies an internal division in the E half of the monument. According to Knox (1918b, 110-12, no. 10), numerous human bones were found within the interior by local farmers. A Man-made underground passage (GA084-009001-) lies c. 20m to the S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 August 2019

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