What is recorded here

Woodbed Rath is a broken thirty-eight metre circle on a Galway ridge, watching the Flaskagh River through grass that has long swallowed its edges. It still carries the name Rabitte's Fort, though no Rabitte remains to answer the call. The land has kept the shape but released the story, leaving only a stone-lined seam and the suggestion that someone once lived where the river light falls.

On a ridge in grassland overlooking the Flaskagh River to W. According to Neary (1914, 118, no. 36), it is known as 'Rabitte's Fort'. It consists of a very poorly preserved circular rath (D 38m) defined by a stone-lined bank at SE, and elsewhere by a scrap. There is Man-made underground passage (GA005-072001-) 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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