What is recorded here
Half a football pitch wide, the Cloonmorris ring stands on a slight rise above eastern pasture. Surveyors marked its circle in 1921, but quarrying has since bitten through both sides and erased most of the bank. A neighbouring house site waits nearby, suggesting ordinary people lived beside the fort rather than fearing fairy trickery. What remains is a low irregular swell, small enough to walk across yet large enough to have kept rain, heat and perhaps invaders at a distance.
On a slight rise overlooking lower pastureland to the E. Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1921) as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). Apart from a low irregular rise, which is quarried out at E and W, no visible surface trace survives. A possible house site (GA123-039001-) lies immediately to the NW.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 February 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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