What is recorded here

Dunblaney’s double bank stands forty metres wide on the edge of a vanished lake, its stone-revetted earth still sharp enough to cut through centuries. The entrance faces southeast toward water that no longer exists, inviting imagination about who built a fortress to watch an empty basin. Inside, a hidden passage drops beneath the grass, suggesting the fort was never merely a boundary but a threshold between worlds.

On a rise in grassland on E side of Lough Agar, a dried-up lake. Known locally as 'Lake Fort' (Neary 1914, 115, no. 192), this well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 40m, N-S 38.5m) is defined by two earthen banks revetted with stone and an intervening fosse. There is a well-defined entrance at SSE and a Man-made underground passage (GA030-057001-) in the interior. 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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