What is recorded here

Beaghroe holds a wide earthen ring near the hilltop, preserving a boundary where human hands shaped the grassland long before modern memory. Cattle gaps now breach the inner bank, suggesting the fort served living animals as much as proud owners. The fairies may have taken the place later, but people built it first.

Close to the summit of a hill in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 51.4m, N-S 45.4m) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is present from SE through W to NW. Traces of a possible outer bank are visible from SE to S. A number of cattle gaps breach the inner bank. 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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