What is recorded here

Ellagh field system stretches 1200m across undulating Galway farmland, its irregular boundaries and cultivation ridges visible only in aerial traces. Three ringforts mark the landscape, suggesting scattered households rather than one planned village. The fields resist coherent description, preserving instead the stubborn randomness of lives lived beside them.

In gently undulating farmland to S of the Galway-Dublin railway line. An undated aerial photograph (Topgr. Files, NMI) shows intermittent traces of old field boundaries covering a large area c. 1200m E-W by c. 600 N-S. A number of irregular fields are discernible, some with traces of cultivation ridges, but no coherent pattern is apparent. Three ringforts (GA086-106001-, GA073-081001-, GA073-081003-) are associated. (ASGAP 377:16) 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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