What is recorded here
Thirty-five metres across in rolling Galway grassland, the breached ringfort still holds a hidden underground passage in its western sector. Cattle gaps puncture the bank, suggesting the fort served living animals long after human hands stopped shaping it. The passage remains unexplained, a dark tube beneath the pasture that invites curiosity rather than certainty.
In rolling grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 35m) defined by a bank breached by numerous cattle gaps. In W sector of interior is a Man-made underground passage (GA073-093001-)
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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