What is recorded here

Fairy forts are earthen rings people stopped understanding, not proofs of fairy courts. In Ardagh the bank still stands thirty metres wide on a sunny slope, gaps cut through it later, while a second ring waits half a kilometre north. Perhaps families lived there, buried their dead, and left the field to grass and forgetting.

On a S-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (N-S 34m, E-W 30.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse. Numerous gaps in the bank appear modern. No visible surface trace of the fosse survives from E through S to SW. A ringfort (GA007-125----) lies c. 350m to N. 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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