What is recorded here
Thirty-seven metres of forgotten anger still circle Allykeolaun, though pasture and time have bitten through the flesh. The eastern gap yawns wide enough for a cart or a ghost, while field walls cut across the ancient line like careless scars. What lived inside that double bank may have been human, hurried and afraid, or something older that simply stopped wanting to be seen. The grass grows smooth over the truth, but the shape remains, waiting for someone stubborn enough to walk its broken edge and ask what it kept.
On an E-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 37m)
defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from NE to SSW. A possible entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) is evident at E. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and NE; another runs outside the inner bank at W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 October 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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