What is recorded here

Moneymore East holds a fifty-metre circular rath with two banks and a central ditch, preserving a shape that human imagination often assigns to fairies. The earth remains clear enough on a northern slope for a person to walk the inside and measure how much space a small community actually needed. The fairy label does not disable that human scale; it records the moment people stopped knowing the names of the people who lived there.

On a N-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. c. 50m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is visible at NE and S. A gap (Wth c. 3m) at NE may be original. (Athy 1914, 135-6; McCaffrey 1952, 126, no. 48) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

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