What is recorded here
Mortons and others walked past the subcircular rath on the Galway hill summit, knowing its thirty-eight-metre frame still holds although the northern bank has thinned. The rectangular hollow outside the northwest edge waits like a forgotten doorway, while the scarp elsewhere keeps the circle sharp against the grass. Nobody needs a warning when the land already draws a line around itself.
On a hill summit in undulating grassland. Subcircular rath (E-W 38m, N-S 36m), in fair condition, defined by a degraded bank at N, and elsewhere by a scarp. There is a rectangular hollow (L 7m) immediately outside the bank at NW.
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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- What survives
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