What is recorded here

Ardnagno holds a well-preserved earthen ringfort, not a fairy tale. Its two banks and intervening ditch still mark a subcircular home in level farmland, with a narrow gap at the south-east and a hidden underground passage in the north-west. It may have been the chief residence of the O'Drinan's, a medieval legal family in south Galway, giving the quiet field a sudden edge of power and secrecy.

In level farmland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (33m E-W; 28m N-S) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse survives from WNW to N, and from SSE to S. The outer bank is only evident from W to N. A gap (Wth 2m) at SSE may be original. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA122-001001-) in the NNW sector of the fosse. As this is the only known archaeological monument in the townland, it may well be the site referred to by Fahey (1901, 230) as the ‘chief residence’ of the O'Drinan's, an important medieval legal family in south Galway. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 6 September 2019

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