What is recorded here

Indicated was a large D-shaped drystone enclosure in County Galway, measuring eighty-five by eighty metres, with a wall nearly three metres wide and standing above one and a half metres high when last seen in 1983. It held a castle inside and sat twenty-five metres from a ringfort, suggesting a layered settlement where people lived, worked and perhaps defended themselves across generations. Land clearance levelled almost all of it in 1991, erasing the gateway Westropp had sketched decades earlier and reducing a complex local landscape to memory.

In rough scrub and grassland. When visited in September 1983, this monument consisted of a large roughly D-shaped enclosure (N-S 85m, E-W 80m) defined by a well-preserved drystone wall (Wth 2.9m, H 1.7m max.). A sketch plan by Westropp (1919, 168) shows a gap at NNE, probably the same point at which he noted 'a slight trace of a mortar-built gateway' (ibid., 182-3): no definite surface traces of either were found. The monument was almost completely levelled in April/May 1991 as a result of land clearance. A castle (GA056-042----) stood in the interior and a ringfort (GA056-043002-) lies 25m to NW. (Anon. 1919, 165) 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 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 1/1991).

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