
What is recorded here
Indicated occupies low-lying reclaimed pastureland in County Galway, overlooking eastern marshland. A small circular enclosure, fifteen metres across, appeared on the 1838 map but no longer shows on the surface. Its setting makes a ringfort unlikely and a buried barrow plausible. The land may still hold the shape of a dead person’s house, waiting beneath grass and water.
In low-lying reclaimed pastureland overlooking marshland to the E. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a small circular enclosure (diam. c. 15m). No visible surface trace survives. The location suggests that it was not a ringfort; possibly a barrow.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 17 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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