What is recorded here

Lisnagyreeny holds a faded stone ring where children were buried and two long rooms stood before the wall collapsed into grass. The fairies may have taken the shape, but human hands built the chamber, the divide and the edge. That is the difference between a myth and a monument.

In grassland. This poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. c. 28m) is defined by a low drystone wall, which is overlain by the townland boundary wall from SW to N and by a field wall from N to E. Within the interior the foundations of two rectangular buildings are evident: (a) to the NE (WNW-ESE; L 14.2m; Wth 7.5m) has an internal division at its E end, and (b) to the SW (NW-SE; L 11.8m; Wth 6.5m). These may be the remains of two of the three buildings shown on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map; no visible surface trace of that shown in the SE quadrant survives. A children's burial ground (GA122-114001-) occupies the W sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2018

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