What is recorded here

Two chambers, dark and shallow, waited beneath the Galway ringfort until the late 1970s erased them. Costello called it a cave of the usual kind, yet the repeated shape suggests people returned there to hide, meditate or keep what did not belong in daylight. Now only a three-metre hollow remains, smooth enough to imagine hands pulling stone aside and breath echoing back.

Within a ringfort (GA016-060----). Represented in name only on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932). Apart from a circular hollow (D c. 3m), no visible trace survives. Costello (1903, 5) refers to it as 'a two-chambered cave of the usual'. According to local information, it was destroyed in the late 1970s. 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

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.