What is recorded here

Quarrying and field banks have cut the western edge, yet a fifty-metre earthen ring still holds the western end of a prominent Galway rise. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the invisible still owns what human tools have damaged. The bank curves from northeast through east to south while a scarp completes the circle, suggesting the site resisted erasure long before surveyors measured its remaining pride.

Near W end of a prominent rise in grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 50m), in fair condition, defined by a bank from NE through E to S, and elsewhere by a scarp. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing element throughout, particularly at W, and a number of field banks cut it. (Neary 1914, 116, no. 108) 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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