What is recorded here
Thirty-six metres of forgotten margin rise from the Galway marsh, a thin ring where human hands once bent earth against the water. The bank still wears stone on its western skin, but gaps and thistles have reclaimed the rest. Whatever lived inside has dissolved back into the ridge, leaving only the shape of a boundary drawn and then abandoned.
On a ridge in low-lying marshland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 36m) defined by a low
bank; external stone-facing is visible from SSW to WSW. Numerous gaps breach the bank and the monument is overgrown with thistles.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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