What is recorded here
In gently undulating grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure cut by field boundaries from NNW to N and from N to E. The monument has been levelled and is now indicated by a low rise (NE-SW 50m, NW-SW 36m) within which are a series of mounds and hollows.
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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