What is recorded here

Mortons have bitten through the western edge, leaving a broken crescent instead of a round fort, yet the greatest height in Carrowmunniagh still belongs to the place named Great Fort. A narrow ditch and outer bank may have kept out thieves or marked the reach of a local household, while the small hollows inside suggest ordinary life rather than fairy wonder. The adjacent rectangular enclosure arrived later, perhaps for stock or work, and the field bank now hides much of the old outer edge.

On the summit of a hill in rolling grassland. Known locally as 'Great Fort' (Neary 1914, 122, no. 129), this poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 38 m) is defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The scarp survives only at N and from E through S to SSW; elsewhere it has been quarried out. A field bank overlies the outer bank throughout. A number of small hollows occupy the interior. Adjoining the site at E is a rectangular enclosure (N-S 21m, E-W 17m) defined by an earthern bank; possibly a later feature. 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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