What is recorded here

Closed eyes see the tunnel piercing Galway earth, linking two ancient forts beneath the soil. That is the end of the real claim. The rest is to invent a visible chamber when the claim is a hidden passage. I will not decorate an absent place into a false one.

Associated with ringfort (GA017-015----). Nearly (1914, 112, no. 82) notes that 'tradition says a Man-made underground passage, with opening a few hundred yards distant on the southern uplands, ran into this rath'. According to local information, people used to enter it through a gap in N part of the garth. It was supposed to exit in the nearby earthwork (GA017-119----) to W. The entrance has long been covered in and no visible surface trace survives. 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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