What is recorded here

Lissacurry is a circular rath thirty-one metres wide on a Galway hillock, its twin banks and central ditch still sharp enough to mark the boundary between human fields and fairy claim. A field wall now strangles the outer bank, hiding the western gap where someone may have entered without permission. The grassland moves around it like breath, suggesting the fort does not occupy the land so much as the land occupies the memory of the fort.

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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