What is recorded here

Mirehill holds a faded circular rath twenty-seven metres across, its earthen bank lost to grass and time except for a ghostly suggestion on the rise. The gap at the east may be modern, but the shape remains a boundary drawn by human hands before memory faded. Fairy fort is the local name, yet the structure is a ringfort, built to exclude or protect. The land kept the outline long after the people forgot the purpose.

On a rise in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 27.7m) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from WSW through N to NNE. A gap at E may be modern. 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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