What is recorded here

Mc Walter's Rath stood as a forty-five metre oval on a north-facing Galway ridge, marked only by a ghostly gangway at its eastern edge before disappearing entirely. The land swallowed the boundary, erasing the fort from sight while keeping its shape hidden beneath the grass. What remains is a vacant slope where human hands once shaped earth into a circle, now reduced to memory and maze.

On N-facing slope of a ridge in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (N-S c. 45m). Neary (1914, 118, no. 48) classified it as a 'Circular earthen rath' with a 'gangway' at E. Known locally as 'Mc Walter's Rath' (ibid.). No visible surface trace survives. 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

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrownaseer South is a likely early-medieval circular earthwork, featuring an eastern entrance, situated on a north-facing slope. Locally known as "Mc Walt," it is associated with folklore surrounding fairies and may have been a site of ritual or habitation in antiquity.

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