What is recorded here

Nutgrove and Feebrack both carry the same hidden ring: a subcircular enclosure on a hillock, wide enough for a small life and curious enough to invite invention. The land around it kept changing, with field boundaries curving near or away, while the ring itself faded until only a vegetation band and a mirroring wall hinted at its shape. Whatever stood there, it was not a momentary mark; it was a residence, a boundary, a claim made visible in earth. The grassland still holds the shape of that claim, even when the wall no longer answers back.

On a hillock in undulating grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as as a subcircular enclosure; a field boundary curved around it from SW to NE. On the 1947 revision of the map, further field boundaries surrounded it from NE to SE and from SE to SW. On inspection July 1983, apart from a band of vegetation (Wth 4m) which may have indicated its outline from E to S, no visible surface trace of the enclosure (c. 37m NE-SW; c. 31m NW-SE) survived. A curving field wall at W and N may also have mirrored its outline. The siting and cartographic evidence suggest that this was a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2019

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