What is recorded here

Drumaskin holds a forty-six metre earthen ring on a grassy rise, watching the marsh below while missing chunks of its south and west bank suggest humans took stone or soil from the structure. Inside, three long mounds and a shallow circular hollow remain visible, perhaps marking rooms, storage or a central feature now reduced to shape alone. The fort is not a vague fairy tale but a built place where living, working and remembering happened before the land smoothed its edges.

On a rise in undulating grassland overlooking marshy ground to N. Almost circular rath (D c. 46m), in fair condition, defined by a denuded bank, quarried out at S and W, and an external fosse. The latter is best preserved from S through W to NW. A gap at SE, now blocked, may be original. Within the interior are a circular depression (D 6.5m) and three rectangular earthen mounds (L 9.3m, Wth 3.1m, H 0.5m). 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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