What is recorded here
Two hundred metres southeast of a known ringfort, a forgotten rath waits beneath dense trees. Its shallow bank and buried ditch suggest human hands shaped the earth before forgetting took it back. The fort may have housed a family, a hermit or a small trading post, but the green has consumed the answer.
Some 200m SE of a ringfort (GA061-032----) Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 40m, N-S 35m) defined by a bank and external fosse. A field boundary overlies the fosse from ESE through S to SW. The interior is densely planted with trees.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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