What is recorded here

Fairy fort in An Cnoc Buí, County Galway: a small artificial island in the north of Loch Buaile, still marked by a dry stone wall rising about a metre and a half. The west interior has surrendered to water, the east has filled with vegetation, and a faded quay still hints at boats arriving. People may have built it as a refuge, a shrine or a boundary marker, but the lake has taken back half the answer. What remains is a ring tight enough to suggest intention, and quiet enough to suggest forgetting.

In N part of Loch Buaile. A small subcircular artificial island (NW-SE 19m; NE-SW 16m) in fair condition, defined by a dry stone wall best preserved from N to NE (H 1.5m). Traces of a quay exist at E. The W part of the interior has been eroded by wave action and is permanently flooded, while E portion is overgrown. (Layard 189.7, 373-4; Killanin 1954, 102; Robinson 1985, 15, 21) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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