What is recorded here

Eleven grassed-over house foundations and a hidden cashel mark a lost village east of Loughrea. The low arched gateway still stands in the southern field wall, framing rough grazing land rather than a busy street. People may have lived there when the fields were small and the gateway led to a road now forgotten. Tonaroasty keeps their shape beneath the grass, waiting for someone to walk the line of the houses and imagine the doors.

To the E of Loughrea town in an area of in rough grazing land. Within a roughly rectangular area (c. 380m N-S; c. 210m E-W) at least eleven rectangular house sites (average L 11.6m; Wth 6.3m) defined by grassed-over foundations are visible. Several associated outbuildings and small fields are also evident. There is a low arched gateway in the field wall to S. A cashel (GA105-189001-) lies in the S half. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 9 September 2016 This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 9/1985). The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 643.

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