What is recorded here

Oileán an Bhalla is a small circular cashel beside Loch na Scainimhe, defined by a collapsed drystone wall still standing three metres high from east to south-west. Its northern quay suggests people once rowed close, climbed the stones and lived inside the ring while the water carried them elsewhere. The name translates as Robinsons island, yet local tradition calls it a fairy fort, reminding us that human history and imagination often occupy the same stones.

Close to SW shore of Loch na Scainimhe. A small circular cashel (NW-SE 18.7m; NE-SW 12.8m) known locally as Oileán an Bhalla (Robinson 1985, 14-15). Defined by a much-collapsed drystone wall (Wth 1.6-2.8m, H 3m), best preserved from E to SSW. At N is a small quay. (Layard 1897, 374; Killanin 1954, 103) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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