What is recorded here

Lisduff holds a ruined oval rath, fifty-three metres long, where two banks and a central ditch once encircled a dwelling or defenced camp. Ploughing and bulldozers have torn the west and south edges apart, leaving only the northeast curve visible in the grassland below Slieve Dart. The site resists erasure despite modern damage, preserving the shape of a place where people lived, worked and disappeared before records began.

On a hillock in grassland, Slieve Dart rises to NW. Poorly preserved oval rath (NNW-SSE 53m, WNW-ESE c. 37m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse best preserved from NE to E. Ploughing and bulldozing have disturbed the enclosing elements elsewhere. A gap at W appears modern. Neary (1914, 117, no. 57) 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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