What is recorded here

An associated underground passage suggests the fort may have hidden chambers, though no chamber is recorded. If so, the fort becomes a threshold rather than a boundary, a place where the ground itself learns to breathe. The visible ring would be only the mouth of a larger living shape, and the field would be its skin.

On the brow of a hill in gently rolling grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1930) as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m) and classified by Neary (1914, 120, no. 26) as 'a circular, earthen rath'. Only a vegetation band marks the site today. On his location map, Neary (ibid., 126) confuses its location with that of GA005-054----. A probable Man-made underground passage (GA005-053001-) is associated. 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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