What is recorded here

Half a hectare of ghost stone on a Galway rise, its northern and southern walls still standing while the rest dissolved into grass and memory. A field wall now cuts through the ancient boundary, and beneath the central turf lies a dark passage no one has mapped since the inventory was written. The fort is large enough to swallow a village and small enough to vanish from sight, which is perhaps why it endures: not as monument but as rumor, waiting for someone stubborn enough to dig beneath the scarps.

On a rise in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (NE-SW 41m, NW-SE 36m) defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall which survives at N and S. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SE, to E of which a scarp forms the enclosing element. No visible surface trace survives from SW to NW. Within the interior is a probable Man-made underground passage (GA043-069001-) 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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