What is recorded here
The circular rath in Annagh stands on a rise above flat marshy grassland, marking a place where the land itself felt alive and the boundary between the seen and hidden grew thin. Inside its faint bank, the ghost of a rectangular house still lies beneath the grass, waiting for someone to remember the shape of the room. This is not a dead ruin but a living marker, a fort where the ordinary world paused and the unusual could enter.
On a rise in flat marshy grassland. A poorly preserved circular rath (D 31m) defined by a bank of which no visible surface trace survives at N and E. Within the interior is a grassed- over rectangular house (E-W; L 8m, Wth 7.3m).
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
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