What is recorded here

Twenty-nine metres of packed earth still stands in Carrownagarry, a shallow bowl cut by time and quarrying. It sits barely two hundred metres from another ringfort, suggesting a small cluster of lives rather than a lonely marker. The bank rises from the south through the west to the northeast, while the surrounding ditch whispers beneath the grass. People may have built it to keep out rain, wolves or neighbours, but the shape remains clear enough to walk inside and imagine them breathing.

Some 230m WSW of a ringfort (GA029-039----). Circular rath (D 29m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank survives from S through W to NE, and the fosse is visible from SW to W. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument from NE to S. 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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