What is recorded here
No visible stones remain in Blackgarden, yet the lost ring may have stood thirty metres wide among ordinary pasture. Forgetting has reduced its rocky wall to memory, while the field continues unchanged.
In level pastureland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 218, no. 14) as a very ruinous circular ‘Stone fort’, the wall of which was composed of ‘rocky debris’. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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