
What is recorded here
Indicated is a circular cashel on a slight Galway rise, its drystone wall still standing after centuries of grass and forgetting. The underground passage in the southwest quadrant suggests people valued privacy or protection enough to dig beneath the fort rather than build taller. A nearby field system and possible rath imply the site belonged to a small busy landscape where daily life moved around the fort instead of stopping at its edge.
On a slight rise in pastureland. Poorly preserved and densely overgrown circular cashel (diam. 47.2m) defined by a drystone wall. Field-clearance rubble has been piled against the external wall-face at S. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA104-014003-) in the SW quadrant of the interior. A field system (GA104-014002-) lay immediately to the N; another possible rath (GA104-280----) lies c. 20m to the SW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Updated by: Olive Alcock
Date of revised upload: 6 September 2019
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- What survives
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