What is recorded here

An Máimín is a drowned stone ring on the south shore of Loch an Bhalla. Its collapsed wall still marks a circular island twenty metres across, while the north half rises higher than the south as if the land itself refused to let go. People may have built it, hidden there or abandoned it when the water took the approach; the lake keeps that much more of the story than the stones do.

Close to S shore of Loch an Bhalla. Circular artificial island (N-S 20.25m, E-W 18m). Traces of a drystone wall (H 1m max.) survive from E to SE; completely collapsed elsewhere. Interior partly overgrown but N half is much higher than S. (Robinson 1985, 15) 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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