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Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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In reclaimed farmland. A well-preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. c. 35m) defined by a drystone wall. A gap at NW is modern. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA103-092001-) in the WSW sector of the interior and some grassed-over foundation lines are evident at S and in the centre of it. Those at S may indicate one of two internal ‘enclosures’ noted by McCaffrey (1952, 190, no. 60) against the cashel wall at S and E. A house site (GA103-093----) lies c. 80m to the SW. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 317) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 January 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA103-092

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mac McCarron, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Rryswny, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Dr Charles Nelson, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mac McCarron, Geograph · Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0
  • Jsilke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Joe Silke, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Joseph McGinley, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Ian Capper, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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