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Cathair Inse

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

On NW-facing slope of a low ridge surrounded by rock outcrop. Circular cashel (D 45m) defined by a low grassed-over drystone wall, no visible surface trace of which survives from SSW to WSW. An extensive field system (GA057-067002-) lies c. 200m to SE. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA057-066

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • andrew mcmillan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Graham Horn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
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