What is recorded here
Mortons and Gortalough still whisper that the fort belongs to fairies, though human hands built the twin banks and dug the fosses centuries ago. The causewayed gap at east-seal may be the original entrance, still inviting visitors into a space where mature trees now hold the inner rim. What looks like a forgotten farmstead may be a threshold between worlds, where the grassland undulates gently enough to hide what it swallows.
In gently undulating grassland. This subcircular rath (32m E-W; 30.3m N-S), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Mature trees are growing along the inner bank. A field boundary clips the fosse from N to NE. The outer bank survives from SE through S to NW. A causewayed entrance gap at ESE may be original.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 3 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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