What is recorded here
Kilcurrivard holds a ruined circular cashel forty-four metres across, enclosing two rectangular stone chambers that may have been houses. The drystone wall still stands on a grassy rise, marking a place where people lived before the stones collapsed into legend.
On a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (D 44.3m) defined by a drystone wall. Within W sector of the interior are an internal division and two rectangular stone structures: (a) (N-S; L 6m, Wth 2.9m), and (b) (NE-SW; L 3m, Wth 2m), possible houses. Another house (GA057-115----) lies c. 70m to NNE.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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