
What is recorded here
Indicated is a ringfort in County Galway, Ireland. It is an almost circular cashel forty-one metres across, built with a drystone wall and marked by a possible original gap at the north-east. Inside the west sector lies a long mound of earth and stone, measuring twelve metres long and eight decimetres high. A house stands thirty metres north, overlooking the grassland and the old boundary.
In level grassland. Almost circular cashes (D c. 41m) defined by a drystone wall. A gap at NNE could be original. In WSW sector of the interior is a mound of earth and stone (E-W; L 12.2m, Wth 10.3m, H 0.8m). A house (GA057-144----) lies c. 30m to N.
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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