What is recorded here

Rathgarve is a 38-metre circular cashel in North Galway scrubland, its drystone wall still standing after centuries of rain and foottraffic. The western gap may be modern, but the unbroken ring elsewhere suggests people once valued the enclosure enough to build and keep it. Fairy fort is the local name, yet the shape and size fit a human home or stronghold more closely than a trick of the landscape.

In gently undulating scrubland. A circular cashel (D 38m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall. A gap at W appears modern. 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

Rathgarve, Ballybaun is a circular early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 6th and 10th centuries AD, characterized by a drystone wall and a western entrance that appears to be modern. While no specific folklore is recorded for this site, like many such forts in Ireland, it may have been associated with local legends of fairies or ancient dwellings of early Irish settlers.

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