Hut site in Carrownaseer South — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

Mc Walter's Fort in Carrownaseer South is a lost circular enclosure on a north-facing hill slope, reduced today to a curving field wall that may mark its southern edge. Neary called it an earthen fort in 1914 and described a mound inside, possibly the remains of a hut, but the grassland has swallowed most of the shape. The name suggests a family claim rather than a military one, as if someone called Mc Walter lived there, bred animals there, or simply owned the memory of the place.

On N-facing slope of a hill in rolling grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a circular enclosure (D c. 55m) (GA005-036----). Known locally as 'Mc Walter's Fort', Neary (1914, 119, no. 49) classified it as a 'circular, earthen fort', and noted the existence of a 'mound' within the interior, possibly the remains of a hut (GA005-036001-). Only a curving field wall, possibly built on the line of the enclosing element at S, is all that survives. 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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