What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished field boundary in County Galway whose curving walls once hinted at a hidden ringfort before people cleared them away. The 1922 map and a 1963 aerial photograph still show the ghost of that shape, but the land itself has forgotten it. What remained was a straight cut through pasture, not a dwelling place. The circle may have been fancy, or it may have been a home that greed erased.

In rough pastureland. A series of field walls curving roughly from NE through S to N and possibly mirroring the outline of a ringfort (c. 47m NE-SW; c. 38m NW-SE) are indicated on the 1922 edition of the OS 6-inch map and are also visible on an aerial photograph (CUCAP AHJ 24) taken in June 1963. Another NNE-SSW running field boundary cut through it from N to SSE. On inspection all the field walls, apart from the NNE-SSW running one, had been cleared away. The current evidence is insufficient to warrant accepting this as an archaeological monument. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 11 July 2019

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