What is recorded here
Carrowroe holds a faded circular rath, about thirty-eight metres across, where two banks and a ditch still mark the edge of an old residence. A field wall now cuts through the monument, reducing the fort to a shadow in undulating pasture. The connected underground passage suggests people once valued hidden movement through that land, perhaps escaping rain, danger, or ordinary sight.
In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 38m) defined by two
banks and an intervening fosse. The internal face of the outer bank is stone-faced at SSW. A field wall cuts through the monument from N to S. A Man-made underground passage (GA106-040001-) is associated.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 September 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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