What is recorded here

Fairy forts are human ringforts misnamed because the fairies inherited them after people stopped using them. In Ballintober West, a circular rath measuring 29.7 metres still holds its shape in marshy grass, though tracks and quarrying have cut through much of its banks. The fairies never lived there; they took what humans abandoned.

In undulating marshy grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 29.7m) defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. Traces of the outer bank survive from NW through N to NE. The inner scarp has been extensively quarried from NW through N to SE. A trackway cuts through the enclosing elements at NE and SE. A causewayed gap (Wth 8m) at W may be original. A children's burial ground (GA098-020001-) lies within the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

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