What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Raheen Kilkelly: a worn earthen ring on a sunny Galway slope, cut open by a road and crossed by field walls, yet still holding the shape of a place people lived or believed belongs to others. The bank widens where stones were packed against it, and a hidden passage lies nearby, as if the ground kept a secret the road could not take. Cattle may have grazed inside for centuries, trusting the old line more than any fence.

On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (50m N-S; 46m E-W) defined by a bank except from NNW to ENE where a road cuts through the monument. A field wall crosses the interior from WSW to ENE and another field wall has been built against the external face of the bank at E. Field clearance material has been packed against the bank in several places with the result that it varies in width from 3.4m at NNW to 7m at S. A well has been sunk in the NW quadrant of the interior. A Man-made underground passage (GA113-185001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

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