What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there. A family or clan shaped thirty metres of Galway hillside into a defensible circle, cut a ditch, left a gap at the northeast, and vanished into the centuries. The marsh still glows beneath the grass, the banks still stand, and the fort keeps doing what forts do: holding shape when memory leaves.

On W-facing slope of a hill, in grassland overlooking marshy ground to N. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 34.5m, N-S 31.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. A scarp forms the inner enclosing element at NE. The outer bank is present from WSW to N and from NE to SSE. Well-defined entrance at NE. An enclosure (GA030-002----) lies c.200m to NW and a ringfort (GA030-004----) c. 250m to 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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