What is recorded here
On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. Very poorly preserved roughly oval enclosure (c. 43m E-W; c. 30m N-S) defined by an irregular scarp. A road cuts across the monument from N to SW and another road cuts it from SW to SE. A number of low banks of earth and stone lie within E half of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 February 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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