What is recorded here

Stone Circles in County Galway are the broken remains of two conjoined cashels, one oval and one circular, buried beneath undulating grass. The drystone walls have collapsed into gaps and mounds, hiding the sharp edges of human labour from ordinary sight. They are called fairy forts in local tradition, yet the visible traces suggest sheep pens and domestic life rather than magical mischief. The land has swallowed the boundary between the made and the natural, leaving only a subtle rise for the walker to discover.

In undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as two conjoined circles defined by a line of open dots and labelled 'Stone Circles'. The remains are those of a very poorly preserved conjoined cashel. The NE cashel (NW-SE 55m, NE-SW 34m), oval in plan, is defined by a grassed-over collapsed drystone wall. A number of gaps are present but none appear original. The SW example (D 69m), originally circular in plan, is also defined by a drystone wall but now survives only from SE through W to N. Traces of inner and outer wall-facing are visible intermittently. There is a possible sheep pen in the interior. 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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