What is recorded here
Kilshanvy holds two rings, one beside the other, as if people built a fort and the fairies answered with their own. The second circle keeps its shape still, a shallow bank of earth and stone wide enough for a dozen paces and a gap at the east that may have been a door. Field banks cut through it now, but the ring has not forgotten itself. It waits beside the human fort like a shadow that learned to occupy space.
Immediately SW of a ringfort (GA028-036----). Well-preserved circular rath (D 27m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A gap at E could be original. Field banks cut the monument at N and S.
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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