What is recorded here
On a prominent rise in pastureland. While classified by McCaffrey (1952, 248, no. 11a) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 35.7m) defined by a bank, he suggests that it might have been ‘a stone fort with earthen cover’. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 10 April 2018
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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