What is recorded here

No one knows who first circled that Galway slope or why, but the earth remembers the shape even when the field has swallowed the name. A fort, a fairy ring, a child's chalk circle, a border drawn in soil: every possibility fits the hole left behind. What is certain is that the land still holds an outline, and people keep returning to complete it with imagination.

On NE-facing slope of a hillock in undulating farmland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 55m). Neary (1914, 122, no. 136) describes it as a 'circular earthen fort … only a segment of [which] remains. The diameter of the garth would be about 120 ft [36.6m]. There remains a 10 ft. [3.05m] scarp N. side and a 10 ft. ditch'. No visible surface trace survives. 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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