What is recorded here
Fairy forts are not places to enter or touch. They belong to the hidden world and they watch back. Keep your distance, respect the boundary and leave the fort alone.
On the summit of a low hill in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. Abutting the monument at NW is a rectangular annexe (26m NE-SW; 23m NW-SE) defined by a bank; it may be associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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