What is recorded here
Laurclavagh in County Galway holds a ruined circular stone wall, partly hidden by green growth, with a small stone chamber touching its inner edge. The chamber may have been a house inside a defended settlement, while a separate enclosure waits a hundred metres away. Together they suggest ordinary human life: building, bounding, remembering, and leaving stone behind for others to misread.
In grassland close to SW limits of a field system (GA057-164----). Poorly preserved almost circular cashel (D 25m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall completely obscured by overgrowth from N through E to SE. A D-shaped structure of stone (L 2.9m, Wth 2.4m) abuts the inner face of the cashel wall at SSW; possibly a house. An enclosure (GA057-132----) lies 100m to SW. (ASGAP 384:30, 32)
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
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