What is recorded here

Elmhill holds a faded oval rath, twenty-seven metres across, where a field wall now cuts the ancient earth. Local tradition claims a hidden tunnel ran southeast from the southern half into the adjoining field, suggesting the fort was more than a simple boundary marker. That lost passage turns an ordinary grassland scar into a threshold, inviting wonder about what humans moved through darkness beneath the Galway soil.

In grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (E-W 27.2m, N-S 18m) defined by a low scarp and external fosse which survives only at S. A field wall cuts the enclosing element at N. According to local tradition, a 'cave or tunnel' (possible Man-made underground passage) ran from S half of the rath, in a SE direction, into the adjoining field. (Claffey 1983, 152) 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). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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