What is recorded here
Close to the edge of a SE-facing escarpment overlooking a marshy area. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 34m); on the 1921 map edition it is more D-shaped in plan. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 April 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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