
What is recorded here
West of a Galway rath, a collapsed drystone chamber holds two rooms now split by rubble and local rubbish. The eastern room is small, the western longer, and a northern breach drops into darkness where the stone work ends. People may have hidden, worshipped or simply avoided the rain there before the roof fell, but the cave keeps that much to itself.
In the W half of a rath (GA114-016----). This drystone-built Man-made underground passage consists of two chambers separated from each other by an area of collapse. The 1st chamber (L 4m; Wth 1.6m) runs E-W and present access is gained at the E end. It is currently used as a dump. The 2nd chamber (L 7.6m; Wth 1.9m) lies to the W and runs N-S. Access to it is gained via a breach at N. Some collapsed material at its SW end suggests the presence of a possible creep.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 September 2019
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