What is recorded here

Dalgin’s fairy fort is a well-preserved circular rath, thirty-three metres north-south and thirty-two metres east-west, set on a grassy ridge inside the former Dalgin estate. Trees line most of its scarp, a degraded bank appears and disappears along the edge, and an opening faces south-east. People may have lived there before the estate turned the fort into a landscape feature, but the grass and shade have taken much of that life back.

On a ridge in undulating grassland within the former Dalgin estate. Well- preserved almost circular rath (N-S 33m, E-W 32m) defined for the most part by a tree-lined scarp with traces of a degraded bank visible intermittently. There is an entrance at SE. The monument was reused as a landscape 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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