What is recorded here
A 48-metre earthen ring in Aille lost much of its boundary to ploughs and clearance, leaving only a northern and southern arc visible today. The eastern gap may be an entrance rather than a wound, inviting imagination about who walked through it and when. The land has taken back most of the shape, but the remaining curve still marks a place set apart for living, keeping or remembering.
At the base of a NE-facing slope in pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam.
c. 48m) defined by a bank from N to E and from SE to S. Elsewhere the enclosing element has been cleared away as a result of land clearance. A gap at E may be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 October 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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