What is recorded here
No visible fort remains in Rahogarty South, though a shallow circle and broken ground hint that people shaped the hill before forgetting the name. The fairies kept what the fields swallowed, turning an ordinary ridge into a chamber where forgotten tools, children’s shoes and unused wedding rings still orbit. What is missing is not loss but displacement; the fort moved inside the landscape and waits for someone stop long enough to listen.
On a SE-facing slope in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 41m) defined by a bank at NW, and elsewhere by a scarp. A field wall cuts the monument at NNW and SSE. A vegetation band at W may indicate the presence of an external fosse.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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