What is recorded here

Half a ringfort, three chambers, two creeps, and no door since the late 1960s. People may have gone down it to hide, keep warm, or avoid being seen; the shape suggests a lived-in place rather than a casual hole. What is left behind is a ghost of angles, a square missing one side, waiting under the grass for someone to remember how deep it went.

Within N half of a ringfort (GA060-102----). Described by Broderick (1882, 637-8) as being 'made in the form of three sides of a square, each side about twenty-five yards long' (i.e. L c. 68.6m). It comprised three rectangular chambers, each set at right angles to the other and connected by two creeps. He describes the entrance as being situated 'nearly in the centre [of the ringfort] ... you go down by three or four steps' (ibid.) The Man-made underground passage is no longer accessible though some roof lintels are visible. According to local information, the entrance was blocked up in the late 1960s. From local memory, the 1st chamber ran N-S, and the 2nd, E-W from its NW end. (Knox and Redington 1916, 186-7) 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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