What is recorded here

No visible trace survives except two feeble banks and a shallow ditch on the western edge of a hillock above Dunbulcaun Bay. What remains is a ghost of a great rath, perhaps sixty metres across, now ravelled into the grass and memory. The sea and time have done their work, leaving only a hint of shape where people once drew a circle against the dark.

On a hillock close to N shore of Dunbulcaun Bay, near the estuary of the Ballynamanagh River. Described by Holt (1912, 235-6) as a ‘great rath, now much ravelled and in part obliterated …. The garth may have been about 195 ft. [c. 59.5m] in diameter …. A shallow ditch, between two feeble banks, remains on the W. side’. The rath is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from SW to WNW; otherwise no visible surface trace survives. (McCaffrey 1952, 182, no. 7a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

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