
What is recorded here
Indicated is a circular cashel on a Galway grassland slope, its collapsed drystone wall still marking a 33.9m boundary though field walls and a sheep pen have chewed through the structure. Redington wrote of two large uprights inside, but no trace remains visible; perhaps they fell, were buried, or never existed at all. The fort endures as a shape remembered by stone rather than a building anyone can point to.
On a slope in grassland. Circular cashel (diam. 33.9m), in fair condition, defined by a collapsed
drystone wall. Field walls overlie it from N through E to S and field-clearance material has been piled against it at W. A sheep pen has been incorporated into the wall at SE. Redington (1916a, 54) refers two large stone uprights within the interior but no visible surface trace of them survives. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA096-037001-) in the NW quadrant. (McCaffrey 1952, 152, no. 76)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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