What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lurgan, County Galway: a 39.4 m circular rath in undulating grassland, reduced to an inner scarp, fosse and outer bank visible mainly at south. A field bank has cut through it at north and southeast, erasing much of the eastern trace. Another ringfort lies about 150 m to the east-northeast, suggesting a small cluster of defended or occupied places rather than a solitary marker. What is left feels less like a grand ruin than a breath held in the land, waiting for someone to walk its broken circle and imagine the hands that shaped it.

In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 39.4m) defined by an inner scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank. The fosse and outer bank survive only at S. A field bank cuts the monument at N and SE and no visible surface trace survives to E of it. A ringfort (GA017-140----) lies c. 150m to ENE. (Neary 1914, 123, no. 154) 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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