What is recorded here

Martin's Fort stands on a low Galway hill, its thirty-three metre circle cut by later field walls yet still marked by a sharp scarp and earthen bank. The site wears a fairy name, but the shape is human: a rath built to exclude, perhaps to remember, or to keep one household separate from the plain. What is missing has not disappeared; it has been absorbed into grass, boundary stone and forgetting.

On a low hill in grassland. According to Neary (1914, 121, no. 31), this is known as 'Martin's Fort'. It comprises an originally subcircular rath (N-S 33m) defined by a scarp/bank. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S and no visible surface traces survive to W of it. The surviving section is defined by a scarp from N to E, and by a bank from E to S, the latter overlain by a field boundary at S. A vegetation band at SE may represent the last vestiges of an external fosse. A gap at ESE could be original. 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

A local fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Flaskagh Beg, known historically as 'Martin's Fort', is likely an early-medieval agricultural or defensive site. It is associated with local folklore referring to it as a fairy fort, suggesting a tradition of supernatural or otherworldly significance.

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