What is recorded here
Dense scrubland in Castlequarter, County Galway, swallowed a thirty-metre circular enclosure marked on an 1838 map. The earth forgot the shape, erasing the boundary between human labour and fairy mischief. What remains is a void where a wall should stand, inviting imagination to fill the gap with forgotten life or supernatural trickery.
In dense scrubland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m).
No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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