What is recorded here

Moorfield holds a broken ring where human hands first shaped the grassland. The fair fort stands thirty metres wide, marked by two banks and a shadowed ditch that later field walls partly buried. It is not a fairy tale but a human residence, reduced now to a curve in the ground. What is missing has not stopped the shape from pointing back to the people who built it.

In undulating grassland, formerly part of Moorfield Demesne. This subcircular rath (34.5m NE-SW; 30m NW-SE), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field bank cuts through the monument from N to NE and no visible surface trace survives to the N of it. The inner bank is visible from S to W; a scarp forms the enclosing element from W to N and from E to S. The fosse and outer bank are best preserved from ESE to SSW; later field walls overlie sections of the latter. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.