What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Rathanlon is a circular stone ringfort about thirty-seven metres across on a gentle rise in County Galway. It has no visible wall left, only faint traces and a rain-water collector inside the grass. The shape still belongs to human hands even though the stones disappeared.

On a gentle rise in rough grazing land. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 285, no. 50a) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 37.25m) defined by a double-faced drystone wall. Traces of an internal division or remains of possible hut sites were noted in the interior (SMR file). Apart from slight traces of a bank at W, no visible surface trace survives. A unit for collecting rain water occupies the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 March 2018

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