What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Roxborough, County Galway: a circular rath, twenty-eight metres across, still standing on its low hillock beneath pasture. Its bank survives best from northwest to northeast, where a level step marks the old ground line, while a possible underground passage opens off-centre to the west. People may have lived, hidden or worshipped there before the field closed around it; the name suggests they also believed the fort belonged to fairy kind.

In gently undulating pasture on top of low hillock; there is a small-scale quarry to the N and a large natural depression to the ENE. This circular rath (diam. 28m) is defined by the remains of low bank (int. H 0.45m; ext. H 0.55m; Wth 4.5m) which is reduced to a scarp in places. The bank (int. H 1.0m; ext. H 0.25m; Wth 6.1m) is best preserved from NW to NE where an external level step (Wth 0.65m) at the base of the bank may mark the top of the hillock. The remains of a low field bank enclose the monument to the N, E and S. A possible Man-made underground passage (GA104-291001-) is visible off-centre to the W. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 24 October 2019

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