What is recorded here
Ten metres of forgotten road still lie buried in the D-shaped annexe beside the Galway ringfort. Local memory calls it the entrance into the fort, as if someone cut a private gate through the earth and waited for it to be forgotten. The stones have since filled the passage, but the hollow keeps its shape like a sentence interrupted.
In a D-shaped annexe adjoining a ringfort (GA046-044----). Just W of the quarry pit in the interior of the annexe is a stone-filled hollow (L 10m, Wth 3m) running N-S. According to local tradition, this marks 'the entrance into the fort'.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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