What is recorded here

Fairy fort / ringfort in Ballydonnellan is a circular cashel in County Galway, Ireland, with a collapsed drystone wall, an underground passage in the west half, and an irregular mound near the centre. It may have been a farmstead, a refuge or a boundary marker, but the hidden passage and buried mound suggest it was also a place of secrecy. The field wall and modern gaps have changed its edge, yet the old shape still holds inside the grassland.

In grassland. Circular cashel (D 37m), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain throughout by a field wall. Numerous gaps in the enclosing element appear modern. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA056-013001-) in W half of the interior and just SE of centre is an irregular mound (E-W; L 9m, Wth 6m). 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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