What is recorded here

Half a kilometre of forgotten life remains inside a thirty-four-metre circle on a Galway knoll, its earthen bank still standing from south to west while a shallow scarp completes the rest. The missing northern ditch has vanished under grass and traffic, yet the field wall and road now trace the same ancient boundary. People may have watched marsh water move below or kept livestock from the damp ground, but the fort still holds its shape against forgetting.

On the summit of a knoll in grassland overlooking marshy terrain to S. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 34m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present from S to W and at NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. No visible surface trace of the fosse survives from N to E. A field wall and road encircle the monument from E through S to SW. 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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