What is recorded here

Under the grassy hillock in Hillswood, a rectangular hollow stretches eight metres east-west inside an overgrown oval rath. People built that hidden chamber within double banks and fosses, likely expecting darkness, quiet or protection from ordinary sight. The earth has swallowed most of the work, leaving only a shallow depression and a boundary half-hidden by vegetation. What the chamber held or who entered it has vanished, but the deliberate shape still proves the ground was never empty or passive.

On a hillock in rolling grassland. Poorly preserved overgrown oval rath (N-S 32m, E-W 22m) defined by two banks and two fosses. The inner bank is visible from NW through N to NNE; elsewhere an a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosses and outer bank survive from NW through N to NNE. InNW sector of interior, a rectangular hollow (L 8m), running E-W, is possibly the remains of a Man-made underground passage. 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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