What is recorded here

Doon Hill stood as a subcircular terraced mound with three rings in Galway pastureland until early 1980s quarrying consumed most of its form. Whether the remaining banks belong to the ancient structure or represent discarded stone from the digger remains uncertain. The land has since been levelled, leaving only a faint difference in vegetation colour to mark where human hands first shaped that hill.

In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 and 1933 editions of the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular terraced mound (c. 45m N-S; c. 38m E-W). According to local information, it was known locally as ‘Doon Hill’ and had ‘three rings’. It was extensively quarried out in the early 1980s. On inspection in April 1985 a series of banks and mounds were visible but it was not possible to determine whether these were part of the original monument or just upcast resulting from the quarrying. Current aerial imagery (Google 2019) suggests that the area has since been levelled but a change in vegetation colour indicates the area of the site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 July 2019

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