What is recorded here

Fairy forts hide in plain sight, wearing the clothes of ordinary farm boundaries. In Foxhall, a subcircular ring about forty metres across was marked on old surveys with a fosse cutting from northwest to northeast, yet by 1983 no earthwork remained visible. The tree-planted field boundary still traces its ghost line through flat pasture, suggesting the fort did not disappear but became the shape of the field itself. What looked like a farm mark may have been a living memory, keeping the ringfort alive without anyone knowing they were preserving it.

In flat pastureland. Marked on the 1938 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a rectangular enclosure overlain by an E-W running field boundary along its N side; on the 1933 edition it is subcircular in plan (c. 43m N-S; c. 39m E-W) and the entire circuit is overlain by a field boundary. A fosse is shown from NW to NE. On inspection in March 1983 no visible surface trace survived. However, the subcircular tree-planted field boundary most likely mirrors its outline. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 August 2019

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