What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Beech Hill, County Galway: a shallow circular ridge and ditch, partly erased by fields and time. People may have lived there, marked a boundary, or feared what the circle excluded. The grass keeps the shape because the earth remembers the choice more long than memory does.

In undulating .marshy grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (47m N-S, 45m E-W) defined by an inner bank, intervening fosse and possible outer bank. The inner bank is present from NNE to ESE; elsewhere a scarp, overlain by a field boundary from WSW to WNW, forms the enclosing element. Traces of a possible outer bank are visible from S through W to WNW. 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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