What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there, though people believed it. Human hands built the clay ring on the Galway hills, likely as a boundary marker or temporary shelter during the medieval period. The earth has softened the edges, but the circle remains visible in grass and stone. What is forgotten is not gone, only waiting for someone to remember how to see it.

On a slight rise in undulating pastureland. A mixed tree plantation, named 'Ring Grove' on the OS 6-inch maps lay immediately to the SW but the trees have since been cleared. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (37.4m NE-SW) is defined by an inner bank (Wth 1.9m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 1.5m) with traces of a fosse and possible outer bank from SW to NW. The latter may be associated with the enclosing element of grove. A possible Man-made underground passage (GA105-159001-) is associated. (CUCAP ALL 33) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 20 February 2018

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