What is recorded here

Kelly's Fort drops out of the grass like a forgotten thought. Its scarped edge still braces against the field, but quarrying has bitten hollows through the middle, proving that human hunger often erases the very hands that built the cage. The bog breathes north of the rise, waiting for the soil to give back what it swallowed.

On a rise in rolling grassland overlooking bogland to N. Known locally as 'Kelly's Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 144), this poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S c. 25m, E-W 22.5m) is defined by a degraded scarp and external fosse from NE through E to S. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. Field banks cut the monument at NE and SSW. A number of hollows within the interior are the result of quarrying. 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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