What is recorded here

Half-hidden in Galway grass, the Carrowntanlis ringfort still measures forty metres across, its earthen bank fading where field walls cut through. People may have lived there before the walls came, but the walls came anyway, dividing what the earth had kept whole.

In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 44m, N-S 40.5m) defined by a bank from W through N to SSE, and elsewhere by a scarp. Two parallel field walls cut the monument at NW and SW, and NE and SE respectively. 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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