What is recorded here

Indicated is a vanished Galway cashel whose double-faced wall once circled forty-three metres of level pasture before human hands or time erased it completely. What remains is a ghost in the grass, perhaps a shallow depression or nothing at all, yet the lost shape still belongs to the land. The fairies kept their fort by refusing to be seen, while human arrogance or neglect deleted the proof.

In level pastureland. When inspected in March 1992, this very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 43m) was defined by the remains of double-faced drystone wall which survived in varying degrees from NNE through E to SSW and was densely overgrown from NE to S. From NNE to NE only the line of the inner and outer facing stones survived. From NE to SSW it was delimited by a collapsed grassed-over line of rubble and occasional boulders. No visible surface trace survived fro SSW to NNE. A later field wall overlay the cashel wall from ENE to ESE and an E-W running wall (L 15m) abutted it at E. Some 6m to the S of the latter wall, traces of a grassed-over collapsed wall (L c. 20m) were visible running parallel to it. The current OSI digitalglobe aerial photograph indicates that the monument has since been levelled. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 15 February 2018

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