What is recorded here
Quarryhill holds a broken circular rath thirty-two metres wide, its two banks and central ditch still visible from southwest through north to northeast. Farm buildings swallowed the remaining curve, but the east-facing slope keeps the original shape alive in grass and shadow. The fort may have served as a defensive stronghold or a seasonal gathering place, yet human activity has erased most of its boundary. What remains is enough to show that the land once drew people into a closed circle before forgetting them.
On an E-facing slope in low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 32m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse from SW through N to NE. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives elsewhere due to the construction of farm buildings.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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