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Caherroyn

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

In undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). No visible surface trace survives; probably levelled during the construction of the Galway-Dublin railway line which crosses it from roughly NE to SW.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA084-034

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.visitgalway.ie
  • Stephan van Helden, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Ingo Mehling, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, tr.pinterest.com
  • Andreas F. Borchert, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Evan Logan / INPHO, via HoganStand, Source publisher
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