What is recorded here
On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland prone to flooding. Poorly preserved pear-shaped enclosure (21.3m E-W; c. 13m N-S) defined by a very low and wide grassed-over bank of earth and stone. (Cody 1989, 296, no. 120)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 July 2019
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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