What is recorded here
The underground passage in the northern sector suggests the fort contained chambers, not an empty shell. That changes the story from a boundary marker to a working residence where people lived, stored food and perhaps kept animals through winter. The missing western bank and modern gaps remove some evidence, but the surviving chamber and stone-facing preserve the essential fact: this was a inhabited stronghold, not a fairy tale invented later.
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (30m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by an
earthen bank with evidence of internal stone-facing at NE. No visible surface trace of the survives at NW. Numerous gaps in the bank appear to be modern. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA097-005001-) in the N sector of the interior.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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