What is recorded here

Half-buried in Galway grass, the oval rath still holds its ridge like a breath caught mid-sentence. A shallow groove cuts across the eastern half, perhaps a passage dug for people or imagined for fairies, and that uncertainty is the point: the fort is large enough to have lived in, but vague enough to belong elsewhere. What is certain is shape, not story; the land kept the outline and gave back the rest.

On a ridge in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (NE-SW 29m, NW-SE 25m) defined by a scarp and external fosse; the latter survives only from E through S to SW. In E half of the interior, there is a shallow linear depression (L 13.8m, Wth 1.5m), its long axis running NNE-SSW; a possible Man-made underground passage. 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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