What is recorded here

Marianne Kiernan first saw the fort through a gap in the birch hedge, not on a map. The quadrangular rath still stands in level Galway grassland, two banks and a fosse enclosing thirty-four metres of forgotten authority. She walked the surviving SE-to-N arc at dawn, measured the SW entrance, and refused the quarrymen's claim that the north bank was ordinary spoil. For three days they argued beside the hose pipe while Marianne photographed the stratigraphy and Kiernan touched the worn inner soil. The survey later used her coordinates, but the men never admitted the fort until the publication appeared.

In level grassland. Well-preserved quadrangular rath (E-W 40.5m, N-S 34m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank survive from SE through W to N; a field bank overlies the outer bank at S. Possible entrance at SW. Two small quarries have encroached upon the enclosing elements at N and SE. 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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