What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballymabilla is a subcircular earthen ringfort, twenty-eight metres wide and twenty-four and a half metres deep, set in undulating Galway grassland. Its bank still stands, an outer ditch cuts across the west and north-west, and scattered stone braces the inner slope from north-east to west. People may have lived there, marked territory or simply shaped the land before forgetting why. The field boundary now crosses it, turning an ancient home into a boundary line nobody remembers drawing.

In undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 28m, N-S 24.5), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter survives from SW through W to NW. Traces of an outer bank are evident from SW to WSW. Stone revetment is visible intermittently on the internal face of the inner bank from NE through S to W. A field boundary overlies it from WSW through N to NE. 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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