What is recorded here
No visible trace remains of the Urraghry ringfort, yet it once stood thirty-five metres wide on the north end of a ridge. The vanished earthwork likely housed people, stored grain, or excluded unwanted visitors before the grassland erased its boundary. Memory, not soil, now holds the shape of that lost enclosure.
On N end of a ridge in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives.
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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