What is recorded here

Quarrying has bitten into the northeast and southwest edges of the Queensfort ring, yet the stone-faced bank still holds its subcircular shape across the grassy rise. The site measures forty metres east-west and thirty-four metres north-south, large enough for a household but small enough to feel like a forgotten room in the landscape. A field wall now crosses the southern edge, blending human habitance with the ancient earthwork. The fort endures not as a perfect museum piece but as a living boundary, marking where local life has repeatedly shaped, used and changed the same ground.

On a rise in undulating grassland. Subcircular ringfort (E-W 40.3m, N-S 34m), in fair condition, defined by a stone-faces bank and intervening fosse with traces of a possible outer bank at S. Quarrying has encroached upon the monument at NE and SW. A field wall overlies the enclosing elements at S. 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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