What is recorded here

The rath of the Hound’s Stone, once a circular earthen fort, vanished beneath the Ballynacloghy road and human forgetting. Holt recorded an underground passage beside the ruins in 1912, but later visitors found the openings closed and the earth itself gone. What remains is a ridge where the ground may still hide chambers, while the road rolls over the forgotten shape of the fort.

On the crest of a ridge in grassland. Known as ‘The rath of the Hound’s Stone’, it was described by Holt (1912, 228) as being irregular in plan and almost levelled. It was cut through by the Ballynacloghy road and no trace of it survived to S of the road. Holt (ibid.) noted that ‘immediately to the E., beyond a field wall, are the foundations of a small hut [GA094-013002-] and yard, below which, as revealed by two apertures is a 'Man-made underground passage' (GA094-013001-). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 122, no. 39) as a circular despoiled ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 50m). He could not find the ‘hut’ or ‘Man-made underground passage’, and local people informed him that the latter had been closed up. No visible surface trace of the rath survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2017

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