What is recorded here
Two earthen rings once circled a narrow chamber on the Carrowreagh rise, but ploughs and time have flattened the walls into a faint dark band in the grass. The lost shape still shadows the ground, marking a place where children were buried and ordinary life touched the unknown.
On a rise in undulating grassland. Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1933) as a bivallate subcircular enclosure (c. 58m N-S; c. 48m E-W). The monument has been levelled but its outline is indicated by a darker band of vegetation. Otherwise no visible surface trace survives. A children's burial ground (GA097-072001-) lay within the NE quadrant of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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