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Enclosure in Derry (longford By.)

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Enclosure in Derry (longford By.)
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Fairy Hill in County Galway still wears two mismatched banks, a rectangular inner ridge and a rounded outer ring, while bramble and shadow swallow the space between. It sits eighty metres east of a rath, waiting for someone to push through the green wall and test whether the shape is human or remembered. The enclosure does not announce itself; it appears only when resistance gives way, suggesting that even abandoned lines can hold the edge of a living world.
Some 80m to the E of a rath (GA108-051----). Known locally as 'Fairy Hill', this enclosure (18.7m E-W; 16.8m N-S), which is densely overgrown with trees and bramble, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank appears to be rectangular in plan while the outer bank appears to be more subcircular in outline. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

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