What is recorded here
On an E-facing slope in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) cut by a field boundary at NW and E. No visible surface trace survives. An earthwork (GA005-021----) lies c. 150m to NE.
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
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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