What is recorded here

You can still walk the inner ring of that Galway paddock, where a swollen earth bank and a broken scarp enclose twenty-six metres of forgotten life. The outer defence has mostly surrendered to the field, leaving a ghost line where human hands once stacked soil against the dark. It is not a fairy tale, though the name suggests one; it is a human fort that time has half-erased.

On the brow of a hill in rolling grassland. Circular rath (D 26m), in fair condition, defined by two banks and intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from SW through W to N; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. No visible surface trace of the outer bank survives from N to NE where a field bank abuts the monument. (Neary 1914, 122, no. 127) 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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