What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there. People built a round earthen wall twenty metres across in low Galway grassland, cut a ditch outside it, and lived inside the ring before a later house took the centre. A field wall now cuts the ancient boundary at the northeast, proving that ownership and memory keep colliding in the same soil. The fort is small enough to walk around in a minute, yet it has survived every cart, plough and forgetting thrown at it.

In low-lying grassland. Subcircular rath (N-S 21.9m), in fair condition, defined by a degraded bank, and external fosse from S to WSW, A field wall cuts the monument at NE. Within the interior are the remains of a later house. A (GA099-047----) lies c. 50m 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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