What is recorded here

No visible trace remains of the ringfort in Carrowkeel, only a house on the ridge where a circular enclosure once stood. The fort has vanished beneath soil and memory, leaving behind a name and a shape remembered on old maps. What was lost is not nothing, but a life lived inside a circle now forgotten.

On N-facing slope of a ridge in undulating farmland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. A house now occupies the site. 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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