What is recorded here

An Carn Mór Thiar is a flattened earthen ringfort in low-lying Galway pastureland, its forty-three-metre circle reduced to a grassed bank of stones and a small northern mound. Cattle may have walked across it for centuries, smoothing the ancient line until the earth itself forgot the shape of the fort. What remains is a shallow breath of a boundary, half-swallowed by grass and time.

In low-lying pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 113, no. 13) as an 'Earthen fort', which was very flattened and denuded, this poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 43m) is defined by a low bank of grassed-over stones. An irregular scarp runs across the monument from N to S; the area to the E of it is 1m lower than that to the W. A low circular mound of earth and stone (diam. 4.5m) is visible in the NE quadrant. A grassed-over stony bank, possibly associated, extends from the enclosing element at SW and runs NW for c. 55m. A trackway cuts across the monument from NE to SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

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