What is recorded here

Quaybaun holds a broken circular fort where quarrying and field banks have cut through ancient earth. The remaining slope and hidden passage suggest people once shaped the land before forgetting its name. What is left feels less like a monument and more like a warning about how quickly human certainty can be lost.

On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 45m) defined by two banks-scarps and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is present only at SW, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field bank cuts the monument at SE and S and no visible surface trace survives to SE of it. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing elements at NE. There is a probable Man-made underground passage (GA029-157001-) in the interior. 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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