
What is recorded here
On NE-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 30m) defined by a bank at S, and by a scarp from NW through N to NE. No visible surface trace survives at E and W where field walls cut the monument. A ringfort (GA005-057----) lies c. 220m to SW. (Neary 1914, 119, no. 23)
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
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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