What is recorded here

Three earth banks and two ditches still circle Tobernaclug, though a modern wall has sliced through the north and erased the south. The name fairy fort suggests something hidden or forbidden, yet the underground passage inside is plainly human-made. Perhaps people dug beneath the ring to keep warm, store grain, or escape rain while the banks blocked the wind. What is certain is that the earth was shaped twice, once to exclude and once to enter, and the field has kept both intentions intact.

In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 43m, N-S 38.5m) cut by a modern stone wall at NW and NE: no visible surface trace survives to S of this wall. It is defined by three banks and two intervening fosses, the remains of which are well defined from NW through N to NE. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA017-151001-) in the interior. (Neary 1914, 112, no. 45) 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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