What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyglass is a 41.4m subcircular ringfort in undulating grassland beside a stream, its north and east edges marked by a surviving bank while the rest has become a quarried scarp. A faint outer ditch still dips from north-east to south-south-east, and a probable underground passage lies hidden within. People may have lived, hidden or worshipped there before the land took back most of the shape. What remains is enough to suggest the circle was made, used and never fully erased.

In undulating grassland adjacent to a stream. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NE-SW 41.4m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is present from NW through N to E; elsewhere a quarried-out scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives as a slight depression from NNE through E to SSE. There is a probable Man-made underground passage (GA086-039001-) within the interior. 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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