What is recorded here

Lack preserves a dog-legged drystone passage within a ringfort bank, proving people shaped the earth before modern cameras or roads. The first chamber measures 2.6 metres, but a deeper eastern depression and possible lintel suggest more than half again as much room vanished or waits hidden. The narrow western creep leads into a second chamber nearly twelve metres long, while a small stone-lined opening in the rath bank may have let air move through the dark.

Within and abutting the bank of a ringfort (GA016-090----). A fairly well-preserved drystone-built Man-made underground passage, dog-legged in plan, consisting of two chambers connected by a creep. The 1st chamber (L 2.6m, Wth 1.1m) runs E-W. Access is gained via an opening at E end. A rectangular depression extending to E of this, with evidence of drystone-walling and a possible roof lintel, suggests the chamber extended a further 5m in this direction. The creep (Wth 0.65m) at SW end is inaccessible but leads to the 2nd chamber (L c. 12m) which runs NE-SW. A possible air vent (D 0.15m), indicated by a stone-lined ope, is visible on the outer face of the inner bank of the rath. 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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