What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Roy, County Galway: an earthen ringfort about eighty metres across, now reduced to a shallow scarp and field walls cutting through grassland. People may have lived there before fields and walls took it apart. What remains is a faint circular memory, the kind of place where forgotten life still shows through the soil.
On a low rise in gently undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 80m) defined by a degraded scarp, with traces of a bank overlain by a field bank at S. A number of field walls cut the monument.
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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