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Dun Onaght

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
Dun Onaght
Photo: Ronan Mac Giollapharaic, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Report the wrong picture

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On NE side of a ridge overlooking the village of Eoghanacht, Inis Mór, to N. Dún Eoghanachta, a Nat. Mon., is a restored circular cashel (D 27.8m) defined by a massive drystone rampart with two terraces and interconnecting steps. Entrance at SE. In the interior are three rectangular clochans (GA110-020001-). I - West Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA110-020

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Photo credits
  • N Chadwick, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • N Chadwick, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.tripadvisor.ca
  • Ian Capper, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.flickr.com
  • Doonaran, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Ronan Mac Giollapharaic, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Herbert Ortner, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Maker not stated on source page, www.alamy.com
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