What is recorded here
No visible wall, no gate, no chamber. Only a shallow circular scar in the grass, twenty-six metres across, marking the ghost of a fort that time and plough erased. The land remembers shape before human memory begins.
In grassland overlooking bogland to E. A very poorly preserved circular rath (D 26m) defined by a low much-disturbed earthen bank. A field bank cuts the monument at W.
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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