
What is recorded here
Lissatogher Forts are two circular raths on a Galway hummock, the larger measuring 24.5m across and the smaller sitting 20m to the south. The main ring survives as a western bank and eastern scarp, with a curved field bank hinting at an outer fosse. They are fairy forts in local tradition, places where ordinary ownership and reason dissolve.
On a hummock in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 24.5m) defined by a bank from SW through W to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Traces of a possible external fosse survive at W where a field bank curves around the monument. Another rath (GA107-179----) lies 20m to S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 April 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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