What is recorded here
Thirty metres of stubborn stone circle a forgotten life on the Galway slope, while modern fields cut through its eastern and western edges. The southern wall vanished entirely, perhaps swallowed by soil or time, leaving only a northern earthen trace to hint at the shape. People built the ring, lived inside it, and disappeared. The land kept the circle but erased the hands that made it.
On a N-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (E-W 30m) defined by a drystone wall from W through N to E. A field boundary cuts the monument at E and W, and no visible surface trace survives to S of it. Traces of an external earthen bank at N are possibly associated.
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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