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On a rise in rolling grassland with bog visible to NE. Known locally as 'Bourke's Fort' (Neary 1914, 123, no. 147), this poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 35m, N-S 33m) is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse which survive from SW through W to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field bank cuts 'the monument at NEandSE.
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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