What is recorded here
No fairy, no magic. A field boundary cut through the fort long ago, and the bank collapsed into the soil. What remains is a shallow scar on a hillock, not a chamber or a cave. The fort is gone except for the shape of its loss.
On a hillock in level farmland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (27.3m NE-SW) defined
by a collapsed bank of earth and stone from N through E to WSW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field boundary overlies the bank from N to NE. A hollow (L 4m; Wth 2m) is visible in the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 181, no. 11)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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