What is recorded here

An Carn Mór Thiar holds a faded forty-five-metre ring where a stone field wall now cuts through ancient earth. The western entrance still gaps wide enough for a cart or a dancing crowd, while the eastern bank has barely resisted the patience of grass and rain. People may have lived inside that temporary boundary before forgetting it, turning a dangerous home into a fairy tale because transformation looks like loss when memory leaves the body.

On a rise in low-lying grassland. Named 'Rareagh Fort' on the OS Fair Plan, this poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 45m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse from S through W to N. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 4.3m) at SW. A field wall cuts through the monument from N to S. To the E of it, apart from a very slight rise in the field level, no visible surface trace survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 112, no. 12) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 January 2017

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