What is recorded here

In improved pastureland overlooking Galway Bay to the S. This roughly circular rath (diam. 30m), in fair condition, is defined by a bank of earth and limestone boulders and it is best preserved from NW to NE; a later drystone field wall overlies it from SE to SW. A N-S running field wall clips the monument at E and a boreen cuts it a W. Within the interior a subcircular cairn of stone and boulders (5.5m by 3m; H 1m) is visible. Holt (1912, 227) suggested it may mark a ‘rifled sepulchre’. Holt (ibid.) also noted a similar mound to the W that marked the entrance to a ‘Man-made underground passage’ (GA102-038001-). (McCaffrey 1952, 176, no. 1) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 April 2018

A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.

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