What is recorded here
No visible fort remains in Graffoge because the land swallowed it. A man may have lived inside the bank, watched the east-facing slope, and vanished so completely that even the entrance disappeared. The fairies kept the fort by refusing to share it with human memory.
On an E-facing slope in reclaimed pasture. Not indicated on the OS 6-inch maps but a curving field boundary on the 1913 ed. may mirror the outline of its S sector. A report in 1986 (SMR file) recorded a raised roughly circular area (c. 28m N-S; c. 26m E-W) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone with fragmentary remains of an external fosse. The original entrance was not recognisable. The rath is no longer visible at ground level.
Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan
Date of upload: 26 August 2011
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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