What is recorded here
No visible cave or chamber exists, but the landowner still calls it a cave because his father entered it through a gate that has since collapsed. The forgotten gate may have been a wooden beam, a stone lintel or a living convention now lost. The hollow remains a narrow opening in the ringfort earth, waiting for the missing gate to be imagined.
In SE quadrant of a ringfort (GA046-042----). A shallow oblong hollow (N-S 5m, E-W 2m) is pointed out as the entrance to a 'cave'. According to the landowner, this was accessible in this father's time via a 'gate' which has since collapsed.
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
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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