What is recorded here

Three earthen banks and two drowned ditches still circle Fairfield, making a shallow bowl wide enough for a hundred people to stand inside. The ground rises above the surrounding pasture, suggesting the builders wanted to keep water out or perhaps keep something else at a distance. A narrow gap in the middle bank remains open, inviting entry rather than blocking it. The shape is not a mistake. It is an invitation to imagine the hands that turned the soil and the lives that moved within the rings before the field wall cut across them.

In low-lying pastureland. Circular rath (diam. 51.6m), in fair condition, defined by three banks and two intervening fosses best preserved at NW. From a distance the monument looks like a three-tiered structure and the interior is raised above the level of the banks. The inner bank is visible from NW to NNW and from SSE to SSW; a scarp forms the enclosing element from NNW to NE, otherwise no visible surface trace survives. Both fosses and the middle bank are evident all round. The outer bank survives intermittently from S to NW but is visible from NW to N and from NNE to ENE. A gap (Wth 2.3m) in the middle bank may be original. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 December 2017

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