What is recorded here

No fairy ever danced inside the forty-six metre circle at Graigueachullaire, though people still call it a fairy fort. Human hands built two banks and a cutting around a grassy slope, leaving a small round stone house visible in the middle. The field later covered part of the outer bank, reducing the fort to a shape familiar enough for livestock and forgotten enough for legend.

On E-facing slope of a rise inundulating grassland. Known locally as 'Hill Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 151), this circular rath (D 46m), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and anintervening fosse. The inner bank is present from Ethrough S to N; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosingelement. The outer bank is overlain by a field bankfrom ENE through S to NNW. Within the interior is acircular structure of grassed-over stone (D 4.8m), possibly a house. 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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