What is recorded here

Magic and life are entangled there. The chamber is a small circle of grey stone set into the hillside, with a narrow gap where the wall thins. You can stand inside it and feel the difference before you understand it. The place is not famous because it is large. It is interesting because it is still complete enough to enter, and old enough to have survived every attempt to erase it.

On a S-facing slope in undulating pastureland, in an area of outcroping rock. A disused quarry lies c. 50m to NW. The rock outcrop to N of the monument has been cleared as a result of recent land reclamation. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 36m, E-W 33m) defined by a drystone wall best preserved from W to N; elsewhere it is grassed over. Rock outcrop is visible within the interior as well as a number of grassed-over foundation lines. 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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