What is recorded here
Kiltullagh North holds an almost circular earthen ringfort, twenty-nine metres wide, on a rise above rolling Galway grassland. Its bank and external fosse still trace a complete circle, though modern gaps have opened the rim. The shape suggests people once valued a defensible home large enough for several lives, not a temporary camp.
On a rise in rolling grassland. An almost circular rath (29m E-W; 28m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse; the latter is visible from W through N to NE. Numerous gaps in the bank appear to be modern.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 9 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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