What is recorded here

No visible surface trace survives, yet a circular bank and external fosse once cut through low-lying swampy ground in Monksfield. That wet setting defies the usual dry ridge choice for a rath, suggesting the fort may have used water as much as stone to keep intruders out. It is easy to imagine people reading the swamp as a moat and building around its refusal to be crossed.

In an area of low-lying swampy ground. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 242-3, no. 146c) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 30.5m) defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. No visible surface trace survives. The low-lying swampy location of the monument is not the most likely siting for a rath. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

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