What is recorded here

Liskillalay is a Galway ringfort where gorse still borders the ridge and two small mounds remain inside the circle. It is the kind of place where people may have lived, buried or remembered before written records arrived. The gap at the northeast may be an entrance, a wound or simply the shape the land kept.

On a ridge surrounded by gorse and scrub in gently undulating grassland. A subcircular rath (N-S 30.5m, E-W 28.5m) defined by a bank from NW through N to NNE; a low scarp defines the monument elsewhere. Possible stone revetment survives internally at NW and SW. Within WNW sector of interior are two small mounds. A gap at NE may 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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