What is recorded here
Belleville Demesne holds a subcircular rath thirty-seven metres wide, its earthen bank still defining the shape in level grassland. A modern gap at the east may mark the original entrance, inviting imagination about who walked through and when. Two hundred metres west, another ringfort waits, suggesting a small cluster of lives rather than a lonely marker. The place feels inhabited even in silence, as if people still move between the two circles under the Galway sky.
In level grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 37m, N-S 32m), in fair condition, defined by a bank. A gap at E, though modern, may mark the original entrance. A ringfort (GA071-069----) lies c. 200m to W.
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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