What is recorded here

Carrowbaun is a 28-metre stone ring on a north-facing Galway slope, its wall cut through by later field walls and its west entrance still splayed open like a mouth mid-sentence. The central stony bank may have divided the inside into two rooms, one for living and one for keeping what cannot be easily taken. A hidden passage is said to leave the fort, which is the kind of detail that stops a person walking home because it suggests the circle was never only a boundary but a door.

On a gentle N-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 27.8m) defined by a drystone wall. A field wall cuts through it at N and SE and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to the E of it. There is an entrance gap (Wth 1.8m) at SW which splays out towards the exterior. A grassed-over stony bank, running E-W, in the centre of the interior, may be the remains of an internal division. A possible Man-made underground passage (GA097-062001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 January 2017

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