What is recorded here

Quarrying has bitten into the earth and a field boundary now straddles the inner bank, yet Lissaniska still holds its shape beside the Bunowen River. The surviving outer bank and broad causeway suggest a place where people once drew a clear line between the living field and the dead. Killure Castle watches from beyond the grass, while the forgotten graveyard inside waits for someone to remember why the ground was marked.

In gently undulating grassland, c. 30m SSW of the Bunowen River. A poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 45m, N-S 40m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank survives from NE through E to SE. There is an entrance causeway (Wth 6m) at SE. A field boundary overlies the inner bank at S. Quarrying has encroached upon the rath at SW and ENE. Within the interior is a graveyard (GA074-017001-) Killure Castle (GA074-070----) is visible c. 250m to SE. 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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