What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Slievedarragh stands in level Galway grassland, a shallow circular scar where human hands shaped the earth before memory faded. Its bank and ditch have blurred into the landscape, yet the shape remains clear enough to walk around and imagine. Maybe it was a home, a boundary marker, or a place where people believed the unseen still lived. The forges of time have worn it smooth, but the circle endures, waiting for someone to notice what it kept.

In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 27.5m, N-S 25.5m) defined by a bank and external fosse. 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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