What is recorded here
No visible tower, no proud gate, only a shallow circle of earth and grass on the hilltop. That is Rathwilladoon: an old ringfort reduced to a faint line in the field, perhaps a home, perhaps a marker, perhaps a place people stopped believing but never fully forgot.
On a hill summit in grassland. An almost circular rath (39.6m E-W; 38m NNW-SSE), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from NNW to SSE, elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field boundary cuts through the monument at NNW and SSE. A gap (Wth 2.9m) at SE may be original. Within the centre of the interior is a Man-made underground passage (GA128-070001-). A graveyard (GA128-069----) lies c. 40m to the SE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 March 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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