What is recorded here

Caltraghlea is a forty-nine-metre circular rath in gently undulating Galway grassland, reduced to a faint southern bank and a shallow eastern gap. The land has swallowed most of its shape, leaving only a ghost of the boundary that once held human life. What remains is small enough to walk around in minutes, yet large enough to suggest the field belonged to someone before it became ordinary again.

In gently undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 49m) defined by a bank from SE through S to SW, and elsewhere by a scarp. A drain overlies the fosse from SW to W. A gap (Wth 7m) at ESE could be original. 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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