What is recorded here

Coolfadda Fort is a ruined circular rath on a Galway slope where lazy beds still cut across the grass and a stony rectangle hints at a forgotten house. It belongs to the old Irish landscape, not a single owned moment, and its double banks suggest people shaped the hill before the field banks swallowed the west side. The fort is small enough to walk in a minute yet large enough to have held a life, a fire and a reason for staying when the valley fog rose.

On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 34.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 4.5m-6m; int. H 0.4m-0.95m; ext. H 1.45m-1.7m) survives from NNE through E to SSW. The fosse (Wth 3m) and outer bank (Wth 2.9m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.35m) survive from NE to E. The W portion of the monument is obscured by a number of field banks. Lazy beds, running WNW-ESE, are visible within the interior. A small roughly rectangular area (L 4.8m; Wth 2.5m) defined by a stony bank in the N half may be the last vestiges of a house site. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 September 2018

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