What is recorded here
Invisible hands may have built the fort, but human bones still mark the chamber where the trickery happened. The chamber is an oval room thirty-three metres long, walled in collapsed stone on a Galway hill. A later field wall crosses part of the seam, and a narrow passage cuts through the floor into darkness. The fairies did not create the chamber; they entered the chamber that human hands had already made.
On a hill summit in pastureland. Poorly preserved oval cashel (33m E-W; N-S c. 25m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, which is overlain by a later field wall from SE to SW. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA113-097001-) in the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 269, no. 10)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 28 November 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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