What is recorded here
Quarrying scarred the earth before memory, yet the fort still stands on its hill, a shallow bowl marked by a field bank and a rectangular wound in the grass. It is not a polished monument but a lived-in shape, the kind of place where people may have kept fire, children, or secrets while the land shifted around them.
On a prominent hill in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NW-SE 45.8m, NE-SW 43.5m) defined by a scarp which is disturbed by quarrying. A field bank surrounds the monument from NE to E. A small stone-lined rectangular depression within the interior is the result of quarrying.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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