What is recorded here
Two ringforts face each other across a hundred metres of Galway grass, the smaller wearing a newer field wall like a scarf. The cashel keeps its round shape despite gaps and age, suggesting people once valued the boundary enough to build it twice. Distance turned the pair into a dialogue rather than a single claim, inviting curiosity about who lived between them and what they guarded.
Some 100m W of a ringfort (GA030-079----). Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 27m) defined by a drystone wall, overlain by a field wall from SE through S to SW. Gaps at ESE appear modern. A ringfort (GA030-081----) lies c. 100m to W
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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