What is recorded here

Lisnabarragh is a fairy fort in County Galway, Ireland. Its two banks and central ditch still trace a shallow circle on the grassy rise, though a later field wall has crossed one side. The fort may have been a boundary marker, a seasonal shelter or a place where people set food for the unseen. In that case it belongs to both worlds, human and fairy, and the broken circle becomes a doorway rather than a ruin.

On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NE-SW 22.4m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Either of two gaps at NNW and SE may be original. A field wall overlies the inner bank from SSW to NW. 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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