What is recorded here

One lintel still protrudes from the sod on the north slope of a Galway hillock, marking a passage that may have run east-west beneath a forgotten fort. The stone measures 1.15 metres and points across the land like a rib left behind when the chamber disappeared. Farms have walked over the depression for generations, yet the local story of a fort remains, suggesting the ground still hides more than it reveals.

Just off the summit, on N slope of a hillock in undulating farmland. Named on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1926-7) as 'Man-made underground passage'. All that is now visible is one lintel protruding from the sod on E side of a stone-strewn depression. Its long axis (L 1.15m) runs N-S suggesting a passage running E-W. There is a local tradition of a 'fort' on the hillock, but no visible surface trace of any earthwork survives. 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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