What is recorded here

An Cheathrú Rua Thoir holds Gleesons Fort, a broken ring where a road and field bank cut through what remained of the earth bank. The fort is small enough to walk beside and old enough to have watched several lives pass across the same grass. It is the kind of place where a child might imagine a door hidden under the soil, while an adult sees only a line of ground marked by traffic and farm work.

On a rise in rolling grassland. Known locally as 'Gleesons Fort' (Neary 1914, 115, no. 110), this poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 36m) is defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from SW to WNW. It is cut by a road at SE and SW, and by a field bank at SW and NW. This monument also extends on to OS 30 (GA030-027----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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