What is recorded here

Quaybaun holds a sharp-angled underground passage within its ringfort, bending from west-east into south-north like a hidden knee beneath the grass. The visible hollow reaches twelve centimetres below the surface and stretches twenty-five metres through the north-west quadrant. Local tradition calls it a cave, suggesting people once believed the earth had been hollowed for entry, escape or concealment.

Within a ringfort (GA029-157----). Local tradition of a 'cave' in this rath. What is visible is a grassy L-shaped hollow, averaging 1.2m in depth, in NW quadrant. Its long axis (L 13.5m) runs WSW-ENE, but its turns sharply towards SE at its ENE end and continues on a NW-SE axis for a further 12m. 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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