What is recorded here
No stone wall or earth bank remains in the gently undulating scrubland of Castledaly, yet a curving field boundary still traces the southern and western arc of the lost ring. That line may be the last visible breath of a circular enclosure thirty-three metres across, large enough for a household, a herd, or a small community facing the open land. The fort disappeared from human memory before it vanished from the surface, leaving behind a shape the fields still remember.
In gently undulating scrubland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as circular enclosure (diam. c. 33m); on the 1921 edition a line of hachures curving from SSW through W to N is shown. No visible surface trace survives but the curving field boundary now here may mirror its outline.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 22 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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