What is recorded here
On a hillock in undulating grassland. A circular rath (D 31m) defined by two well-preserved banks and an intervening fosse. The outer bank is for the most part overlain by a field wall, and no visible surface trace of it survives at E. A gap (Wth 3m) at SW could be original.
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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