What is recorded here

Garrankyle West once held a broad earthen ring, forty-five metres across, but human hands have already erased most of it. A silage pit swallowed the centre before a shed took the whole site, leaving only a curious field boundary to hint at the lost circle. The fort has become a fairy story literally: big enough to forget, small enough to lose, and gone fast enough that nobody remembers exactly when it disappeared.

In recently cleared farmland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 157, no. 44) as a roughly circular 'Earthen fort' (c. 45.7m E-W; c. 30.5m N-S) which was 'much obscured by rubble and trees'. On inspection in June 1983 no visible surface trace of it survived and a silage pit occupied its interior. Aerial imagery (https://binged.it/2wQ0Fvi, last accessed 7 September 2018) shows that a shed now occupies the site. The field boundary curving around it from SSW through N to NE may mirror the line of the enclosing element of the rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 September 2018

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