What is recorded here
Ussey holds a shallow earthen ring on an east-facing slope, its bank still drawing an oval thirty-four metres long across open grassland. The shape is worn but unbroken, large enough to exclude herds or include neighbours depending on the hunger of the moment. It is the kind of place where human urgency was built once, forgotten twice, and still occupies space because the earth remembers the pressure laid upon it.
On an E-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 34m, E-W 32m) defined by a 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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