What is recorded here

Galway’s marshy grassland still holds a raised rectangular platform, ringed by faint ditches and grass-covered banks, where a castle later rose inside an older moated place. The causeway cuts across the northern ditch like a tongue pressing into water, while stony lines within suggest rooms or divisions now hidden under turf. To walk its edge is to measure how much human pride and fear can be absorbed by wet ground, leaving only a slight depression and a boundary marked in grass.

In low-lying marshy grassland. This raised rectangular platform (53m E-W; 50m N-S; H 1-2m) is delimited by the remains of a grass-covered wall (Wth 1m; int. H 0.5-0.7m) running around its perimeter. A NW-SE running field boundary cuts across its SW corner. A fosse (Wth 2m) is evident along the S, W and N sides of the platform; on the S side it survives as a slight depression (Cody 1989, 367-9). Beyond this an outer bank is visible along the W and N sides. There is a causeway across the fosse midway along N side but there is no corresponding gap in the platform. The interior is level and there is a possible castle (GA097-104---) in the W half, to the S of which a series of grassed-over stony banks may indicate internal divisions. Another building (GA097-104002-) is visible c. 10m to the E of the castle. This monument may be the remains of a moated site that was reused as a bawn when the castle was built. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 December 2019

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