What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyglass South is a worn earth ring on an east-facing grass slope, about forty-five metres long and forty metres wide, with two banks and a ditch between them. It is not a smooth circle but a bruised oval, partly buried under a field boundary and still holding its shape against rain and cattle. People may have lived there, fenced it, forgotten it, or feared it. The earth remembers more than pride, which is why such places sound like warnings when they speak.

On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 45.5m, E-W 40m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from S to W and at N; elsewhere a degraded scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse and outer bank survive from SE through S to W. A field boundary overlies the outer bank from SW to W. 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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