What is recorded here

Half-buried in grass and shadow, the Cloonmoyle ringfort holds its shape like a breath caught mid-sentence. Its bank and ditch mark a small world set apart, large enough for life but narrow enough to feel owned. People may have lived there, loved there, and vanished into the ordinary centuries ago, leaving only a rounded scar in the land. The fairness of its lines suggests care, not accident, as if someone shaped the earth to keep the unknown at a distance.

On a rise in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (N-S 43m, E-W 40m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. A scarp forms the enclosing element from N to NE. The fosse survives from WSW to NNW; a field bank runs along its outer edge. 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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