What is recorded here

Indicated was a stone cashel on a low Galway ridge, mapping as a subcircular enclosure before quarrying and changed fields erased its visible outline. It may have been a small fortified dwelling, a boundary marker or a fairy fort, but the land has taken back the answer. What remains is a absent shape, suggested by rock, memory and the line of a forgotten track.

On a low ridge in an area of grassland and rock outcrop. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a hachured subcircular enclosure (c. 34m N-S; c. 26 E-W) and on the 1915 edition as a subcircular field. On inspection in August 1982 a curving field boundary in the W and N sectors with slight traces at S may have mirrored the outline of the enclosing element; otherwise no visible surface trace of the enclosure survived. Many of the field boundaries shown on the 1915 map had also been cleared away. Aerial imagery indicates that a large quarry now occupies this area and no visible surface trace of the enclosure is visible. A trackway leading into the site may overlie the W half of it. The cartographic evidence and siting in an area of outcropping rock suggest that this may be a cashel. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 17 July 2019

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