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Rathnagall

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Half a kilometre west of the main road, a narrow track cuts through the rath's double bank and drops into the grass. The fort is not a ruin but a living edge: two banks, one ditch, a flat floor, and a chambered tomb set into the south-east quadrant. People may have lived here, buried their dead beside the living, or simply passed through because the route was already made. The ground still holds the shape of that choice.
On a rise in grassland. Well-preserved circular rath (D 59m) defined by two banksand an intervening fosse. A trackway cuts themonument at NNE and E. Within SE quadrant of the interior is a CBG (GA057-120001-). 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
Rathnagall, Kilcurrivard is a well-preserved early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries AD, characterized by a circular enclosure (59m diameter) with two banks and an intervening fosse. While no specific folklore is recorded for this site, like many such raths in Ireland, it may have later been associated with local fairy tradition or other supernatural beliefs.

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