What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Sheepwalk, County Galway: a worn earth ring, twenty-eight metres long and twenty-four wide, set in flat grass. People may have lived inside it, raised children, lost children, fed fire until the fire went out. The bank still marks the edge of that forgotten room.

In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 28.8m, E-W 23.8m) defined by a degraded bank. 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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