What is recorded here

Mortons and Delany recorded the site before modern survey wheels rolled past. Garraunnameetagh still holds a subcircular rath at the ridge end, its double banks and narrow fosse marking a small defended or occupied place in open grassland. The name invites fairy tale, but the earthwork speaks plainly: someone shaped a boundary, lived inside it, and left a shape the land has not forgotten.

At the N end of a ridge in undulating grassland. This subcircular rath (29.5m NNW-SSE; 22.5m ENE-WSW), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank (Wth 4.8m including slippage; int. H 0.1m; ext. H 1.3m) is visible from S through W to NNW; traces of an external stone revetment are visible at NNW. A scarp forms the enclosing element from NNW through E to S. The fosse (Wth 1.3m) and outer bank (Wth 4.8m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1m) survive from W to NNW. Hawthorn trees are growing on the inner bank from S to SW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 December 2017

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