What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Lisdoran, County Galway: circular earthwork near hill summit, about thirty metres across, with a bank and outer ditch visible from south through west to north. Grass and time have swallowed the rest. People may have lived there, marked territory, or simply followed the curve the land already suggested. What remains is a round line on a hill, holding its shape against forgetting.

Close to the summit of a hill in grassland. Much-overgrown circular rath (D 29.7m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse from S through W to N. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. (Knox 1918, 92-3) 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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