What is recorded here

Dún Dearg is a D-shaped stone ringfort on a high rocky knoll overlooking Streamstown Bay, where a grass-covered wall meets a natural rock ridge to enclose a small living space. Its tiny circular depression and two lost neighbouring cahers suggest a cluster of homes or markers rather than a single grand hall. The bay below and the sharp rock above created a place where people could watch the water, keep livestock, or simply believe the fairies had taken the best view.

On a high rocky knoll overlooking Streamstown Bay. Known locally as Dún Dearg, this is a poorly preserved D-shaped cashel (N-S 11m, E-W 10m) defined by a grass-covered drystone wall from W through N to E. A natural ridge of rock outcrop forms the enclosing element at S. To N of centre is a small circular stone-lined depression (D 1.2m). Two similar 'cahers' once lay to N (GA022-071----, GA022-071001-). (Petrie 1972, 253) 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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