What is recorded here
No visible stones, only a shadow line in the grass, yet the ground dips two metres where human hands carved an L-shaped chamber beneath the rath. The passage stretches north-south for eleven metres before bending east for eight, a hidden room large enough for several people to stand inside. Perhaps it served as a shelter, a treasury, or a place for rituals when storms broke the sky above Claremadden.
Within the SW quadrant of a rath (4655). An L-shaped depression (L >18.9m; Wth 3.9m at N; D 1.2 ). It runs N-S for 10.9m and E-W from S end for 8m. No stonework is visible.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 27 November 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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