What is recorded here

Indicated is a broken ring of stone in Galway grassland, wide enough to swallow a house but narrow enough to feel like a fist. Its southeast gap still stands three metres open, perhaps an invitation rather than a wound. Inside shadows a rectangular leacht waits for names, while field rubble buries the rest. The land remembers shape before people stop repeating it.

In undulating grassland. Heavily overgrown roughly circular cashel (D c. 40m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall from W through N to S. Field-clearance rubble has obscured much of the enclosing element. A gap (Wth 3.1m) at SE may be original. In NW sector of the interior, a rectangular structure (L 7m), defined by a grassed-over stone wall, may be associated or related to a 'leacht' which the landowner said was located in this area. 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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