What is recorded here

No one knows when the fort was built, but it stood on the highest ground in Glen, watching the valley below. A circle fifty metres wide, large enough for a hall, a byre and a garden, yet no wall or ditch remains to mark where the stones once rose. The field boundaries still cut through its ghost, lines drawn by ploughs that forgot what they crossed. Perhaps the fort was never lost, only moved inside the land, waiting for someone to stop measuring and start listening.

On the highest point in the locality, in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m) cut by a number of field boundaries. No visible surface trace survives. 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

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