What is recorded here
No fairy ever hopped in Lecarrownagappoge. Humans built the ring, lived beside the stream, and took stones from the south when they needed wall material. The field ridges beside it show that people kept working the land long after the fort lost its shape. What remains is a broken circle, not a mystery.
On a low ridge in grassland, to the S of a stream. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (25.5m E-W; 20m N-S) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from WSW through N to ENE; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from SSW through N to ENE. The monument has been quarried out in several places, especially at S. Cultivation ridges, running NE-SE, are visible immediately to its W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 12 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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