What is recorded here
No visible surface trace survives, yet a map drawn before the land changed recorded a circular enclosure forty metres wide on a rise in open pastureland. That absence is not nothing. It is a ring of forgotten pressure, likely human-made and now erased by plough, boot, or time. The fort disappeared the way most small truths do: gradually, without witness, while the field kept using its shape for grass and light.
On a rise in open pastureland, formerly demesne land. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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