What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lomaunaghbaun is an oval cashel on a south-facing ridge in County Galway, now reduced to a low grassed wall and quarried gaps where a shed took stones. What remains hints at a divided interior and a hollow beneath the turf, maybe a passage or merely a trench for modern convenience. The site has given up much of its shape, yet the surviving curve still suggests a place set apart, perhaps feared, perhaps loved, before human wants chewed it in half.

On S-facing slope of a ridge in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (E-W 32m, N-S 23.7m) defined by a low grassed-over dry stone wall. No visible surface trace of the enclosing wall survives from W to N due to quarrying and the construction of a shed. Gaps at N and S appear modern. In NE portion of the interior, a low grassed-over drystone wall, running NE-SW, possibly marks an internal division. To W of it is a quarried out area, L-shaped in plan (E-W 6.4m, N-S 5.8m), possibly a Man-made underground passage but more likely an excavation trench for the nearby shed. 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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