What is recorded here

Thirty years of rain and traffic have erased most of the forty-eight-metre circle, leaving only a northern bank and southern scarp to mark where the fort stood. The road now cuts cleanly through the missing east and west sections, turning an ancient boundary into a modern junction. What remained of the structure has become a local fairy fort, a name that acknowledges the shape is gone but the presence is not.

On S-facing slope of a rise in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved circular ringfort (D 48.3m) defined by a bank of earth and stone from NW through N to NE, and by a scarp from ESE to SE. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A road cuts the monument at E and W. A ringfort (GA017-156----) lies c. 300m to WSW. (Knight c. 1975, 111) 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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