What is recorded here

Enclosure is a large pear-shaped ridge in County Galway, marked by two banks, a ditch and a narrow causewayed gap that may have been its entrance. It stands close to a townland boundary and near a possible rath, suggesting a lived landscape rather than a forgotten shape. The chambered tomb inside its southeast quadrant hints that prayer, memory and everyday life may have shared one bounded space.

On a ridge in grassland, c. 100m N of the td. boundary. Poorly preserved pear-shaped enclosure (N-S 76m, E-W 76m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible at N and S; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from SW to N. A causewayed-gap (Wth 3.5m) at NW may indicate the original entrance. Within SE quadrant of the interior is a CBG (GA073-145001-). Its presence, when coupled with the size of this monument and its proximity to the td. boundary, raises the possibility that it could be an early ecclesiastical enclosure. A possible rath (GA073-165----) lies c. 90m to the NNE. 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). Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 11 May 2021

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