What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Shigaunagh, County Galway: a 49 m earthen ring in level farmland, still whole enough to show its parts. A diagonal bank splits the inside into two heights, the southeast side dropping 1.2 m below the northwest, while a 3 m gap at the northeast may be the old entrance. People may have lived there, herded there, or simply walked past it after dark, believing the fairies had taken the house but leaving the wall behind.

In level farmland. Well-preserved roughly circular rath (diam. 49m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. A bank running through the interior from roughly NE to SW divides the monument into two distinct levels, that to the SE being 1.2m lower than that to the NW. A gap (Wth 3m) at ENE may be original. On inspection in 1974 Wheeler (SMR file) noted the presence of a fosse and slight traces of an outer bank at S; no visible surface trace of these features survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 June 2019

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