What is recorded here

Carrowmore holds a massive earthen ring, seventy-five metres across, where two banks and a central ditch still trace a forgotten boundary. The road now circles the monument like a modern ribbon tied around an ancient neck, while a nine-metre gap at the west suggests a deliberate entrance rather than decay. People may have lived inside that shallow bowl, watching the low-lying pastureland breathe with rain and light. The earth remembers shape long after names disappear.

On a rise in low-lying pastureland. This large subcircular rath (c. 75m N-S; c. 65m E-W), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is visible from N through E to W; from W to NW a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives around the S half of the monument and the outer bank is extant only from S to WNW. A road encircles it from NW through E to S. A gap (Wth 9m) at WNW may be original. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 January 2018

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