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Curraghmore Fort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Curraghmore Fort
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What is recorded here

No visible bank survives at the north, yet the fort holds its shape on a gentle south-facing slope. A field wall cuts through the ancient ring at north-west and north-east, while the interior grows vegetables instead of memory. The boundary has become a garden bed, the fort an ordinary lunchplace where soil and wall collide without warning.
On a gentle S-facing slope in pastureland. Classified by Cody (1989, 191-2, no. 44) as a subcircular rath (31m N-S; 29m E-W) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives at N. A field wall cuts through the monument at NW and NE and the interior is used as a vegetable garden. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 7 December 2017

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