What is recorded here
No visible underground passage remains, though one was mapped inside the overgrown circle. The fort is a collapsed drystone ring thirty-five metres wide on a west-facing Galway slope, its entrance and uprights lost beneath scrub and rubble. What is left is a shallow breath of a place, more suggestion than structure, waiting for someone to walk the faint line and imagine the chamber below.
On a gentle W-facing slope in scrub and rock outcrop. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 35m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, now reduced to a rubble spread. McCaffrey (1952, 264, no. 12) noted an entrance (Wth c. 2.1m) facing E ‘flanked by two large uprights’ and also a ‘Man-made underground passage’ (GA113-032002-) in the interior. No visible surface trace of these features survives; the interior is heavily overgrown.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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