What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Turlough, County Galway, is a subcircular rath with an inner bank, a fosse, and a probable underground passage inside. It stands on a north-facing grassland slope near Ballymoe, with a smaller enclosure fifty metres to the southwest. People may have lived, hidden, or worshipped there before fields and folklore took the place over.

On a N-facing slope in grassland. Well-preserved subcircular rath (N-S 46.5m, E-W 44m) defined by an inner bank and intervening fosse, with traces of an outer bank at NW. A field boundary overlies the inner bank from E through S to WSW. A gap at E could be original. There is a probable Man-made underground passage (GA007-1200001-) in the interior. An enclosure (GA007-121----) lay 50m to SW. 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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