What is recorded here

No visible chamber remains at Ballynaclogh, although local memory points to a hidden room beneath the grass. The fort stands thirty-five metres across on an east-facing slope, its bank broken in places and its edge cut back by quarrying. A rectangular hollow filled with stinging nettles lies inside the south-western curve, deep enough to swallow a standing person. That sharp green box may be the mouth of the missing chamber, waiting for someone brave enough to push through the pain.

On a gentle E-facing slope in grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 34.8m, N-S 32.7m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives from SSW through N to ENE. The bank is breached in a number of places and quarrying has encroached upon the monument at SSE and SW. Just inside the bank, in SW quadrant of the interior, is a rectangular nettle-filled hollow (L 7.8m, Wth 5.5m) up to 1.2m in depth; a possible Man-made underground passage 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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