What is recorded here
No visible trace survives in the pasture, but a road still cuts through the ghost of a forty-five metre circle. The fort has vanished into grass and forgetting, leaving only a gap in the land where a wall once stood. What disappeared may have been a home, a boundary, or a warning about how quickly human shape can be erased.
In pastureland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m) cut at NW and E by a road. 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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