What is recorded here

Aghlisk is a low-lying rath in Galway, its two banks and ditch still drawing a shallow circle across grassland that floods without warning. A road now cuts the earth from northeast to southeast, and a modern gap opens at the northwest, yet the inner bank remains visible from south to west. People may have lived inside this wet ring before the land changed, or perhaps the fairies kept it from human use. Either way, the soil remembers a boundary even when the surface has forgotten it.

In low-lying level grassland prone to flooding. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 46m, N-S 42.7m) defined by two banks and intervening fosse. The inner bank is present from S to W and at NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A road cuts through the enclosing elements from NE to SE. A gap at NW 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

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