What is recorded here

Clearance of the fields is destroying the fort. The outer bank and the inner ditch have vanished completely from the northwest to the southeast, leaving only a thin ridge of soil where a defensible wall once stood. People moved stones and dirt for decades, breaking the circle without knowing what they damaged. The fairies lost their fortress because human hands treated ancient land as new property.

On the summit of a hillock in undulating pastureland. Subcircular rath (58m NNW-SSE), in fair condition, defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A field boundary cuts the monument at NNW and SSE and no visible surface trace survives to SW of it. Another field boundary cuts it at NE. The inner bank is visible from NNW through N to SE, but the fosse and outer bank only survive from SE to SSE. Field-clearance rubble is piled against the inner bank at ESE. (McCaffrey 1952, 180, no. 9) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

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