What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Island West: a 61-metre earthen ring on a grassy hill, hemmed by bogland and marked inside by a wedge-shaped platform that may have supported a house. People later called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the shape still feels like a room set aside from the ordinary world.

On a low but prominent hill in grassland surrounded on three sides by bogland. A subcircular rath (N-S 61m, E-W 55m), in fair condition, defined by a bank from N to E, and elsewhere by a scarp. A field bank encircles the enclosing element from SW through N to NE, and another cuts across the rath at NE and SSE. In NW quadrant , a low wedge-shaped platform (L 9m, H 0.75m), narrowing from 7m in width at S to 4.7m at N, is possibly a house foundation (GA001-020001-). There is a small rectangular hollow at S end, the result of digging in recent years. This is pointed out as the site of a 'cave' (possible Man-made underground passage - GA001-020001-) but no visible surface trace of such is visible. A number of low banks are also visible to E and SE of it, running principally on a NW-SE axis; possible internal subdivisions. 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: 28 September 2017

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