What is recorded here
In flat grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W). A field boundary cut through the monument from N to SSW. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 8 February 2019
A local fairy fort (ringfort/rath); wider significance not recorded.
The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.
- What survives
- Recorded monument
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