What is recorded here
Half-hidden in grass on a Galway rise, the fort keeps its circle intact. Two earth banks and a narrow ditch still mark the edge of a small life long dead. The gap at the east may be a door, not a wound. What entered through it, and what left, has gone back into the grass.
On a rise in grassland. Well- preserved circular rath (D 25.8m) defined by two earthen banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank only survive from S to WSW. A gap (Wth 2m) at E may be original.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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