What is recorded here
On a natural platform overlooking grassland to S and bogland to N. A large poorly preserved oval rath (N-S 91.5m, E-W 60.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field boundary cuts the monument at NW and NE, to N of which a scarp forms the enclosing element.
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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