What is recorded here

No visible surface survives, but beneath the school and playing field in Rakerin, a subcircular earthwork once clipped a road and hid a cave. Children now run where an unknown ringfort stood, their feet pressing the same soil that held a chamber no longer named. The fort disappeared under pasture and progress, yet it still shapes the ground they play upon.

In level reclaimed pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 47m NW-SE; c. 45m N-S) which was clipped by a NW-SE running road from N to SE. A ‘Cave’ (GA123-082001) is shown within the N sector of the interior. No visible surface survives. The site is now occupied by a school and playing field. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 July 2019

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