What is recorded here
Drumeyre holds a faded oval rath, forty-four metres across, where a grassy bank and shallow ditch still mark the edge of an old life. The northern gap, barely three metres wide, invites entry rather than blocking it, as if the fort never meant to keep everyone out. People may have lived there, herded animals, or simply claimed the rise before the land forgot their names. What remains is shape, not story, but the shape still points toward the hands that made it.
On a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (44.8m NW-SE; 37m NE-SW) defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is visible from S to SW. Traces of a possible outer bank survive at S. A gap (Wth 2.7m) at N appears to be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 11 December 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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