What is recorded here
Thirty-two metres of forgotten wall still tilt across the Rockfield East slope, marking a home built before memory faded. The grass hides a ditch and outer bank, yet a narrow underground passage remains inside the ring. People may have lived above or fled below when storms raged, while later listeners called it a fairy fort because the shape refused to explain itself.
On a N-facing slope in grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 32m) defined by a scarp, with traces of an intervening fosse and possible outer bank at NW. There is a probable Man-made underground passage (GA031-057001-) within 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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