What is recorded here

Half a kilometre from its neighbour, the Cloonigny fort still stands with a broad eastern gap and a water-cut moat, waiting for the footsteps that shaped it. It is the kind of place where ordinary life becomes legend: a farm, a refuge, a boundary marker, or the home of a fairy king who never left. The grassland gives nothing away, but the bank remains solid enough to touch. What is missing is not structure, but witness; the fort has kept its shape while the names and memories around it thinned like mist.

In level grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (E-W 42m, N-S 38m) defined by a bank and external fosse. There is an entrance (Wth 4.7m) at E. A ringfort (GA074-030----) lies c. 350m to ESE. 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 The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 563.

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