What is recorded here
Manninard holds an oval fairy fort forty-four metres long, buried in low-lying Galway farmland. A field wall cuts through its earthen bank while dense overgrowth swallows the south-western edge, proving that human convenience still chokes ancient boundaries. The rath survives in fair condition despite these injuries, waiting for someone brave enough to walk its hidden circumference before darkness takes the last visible trace.
In low-lying farmland. Oval rath (44m E-W; 35.4m N-S), in fair condition, defined by an earthen bank. A field wall cuts through the monument at NNW and SSE; to its SW the bank is obscured by dense overgrowth. (McCaffrey 1952, 241, no. 105)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 February 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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