What is recorded here

Kilbeg holds a subcircular earthen rath thirty-nine metres across, overlooking bogland where the boundary between human and fairy becomes porous. Two rectangular enclosures abut its southern bank, one entered through a six-metre gap, suggesting domestic life or later reuse rather than singular purpose. The field wall now crowning the northern earthworks hints that people kept shaping the site long after its original makers departed.

In undulating grassland overlooking bogland to the N. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (39m N-S; 32.5m E-W) is defined by an earthen bank that is overlain by a field wall from NW through N to NE. Abutting the monument at S are two conjoined rectangular earthen enclosures; the W example (E-W 21m; N-S 19m) is accessible via a gap (Wth 6.3m) in the bank of the rath at S. Abutting this enclosure at E is a similar smaller enclosure (E-W 17m; N-S 15m). It is unclear if these are related to the rath or are later features. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

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