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Caher in Ballycolgan

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
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On a hummock in grassland overlooking a lake to E. A poorly preserved circular ringfort (D 32m) defined by low bank of earth and stone from E through S to W; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA042-014

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mac McCarron, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Wanfried-Dublin, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • The original uploader was Dppowell at English Wikipedia ., Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.5
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  • Enda O Flaherty, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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  • C Michael Hogan, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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