What is recorded here

Chapelpark is a 41-metre ringfort on a ridge in County Galway, built from earth and stone, with a narrow gap at its south-east edge. It is not a fantasy castle or a hidden palace. A person may have lived there, tended animals, or marked a boundary, but the facts do not say which. What is known is that the bank still stands, the land is open, and the fort belongs to Galway, not to invention.

On SE-facing slope of a ridge in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (NNW-SSE, 41m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone best preserved from N to NE. Possible external fosse survives from SW through W to NNW. From S through W to N, a mound of collapsed stone overlies the enclosing element. A gap (Wth 1.9m) at SSE could be original. 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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