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Enclosure in Toberroe (dunmore By.)

Enclosure
Enclosure in Toberroe (dunmore By.)
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Thirty-one metres of grassed stone mark a rectangular chamber beside Toberroe, while a shorter annexe clings to its south edge like a forgotten shadow. The wall has collapsed into turf, yet the shape remains clear enough to suggest purpose rather than chance. A ringfort waits twenty metres southeast and a house stands a hundred metres north, tying the enclosure into a lived landscape instead of an abandoned one. People may have kept livestock, stored tools or marked a boundary there, but the stones no longer explain themselves. They only refuse to disappear.
Within a field system (GA028-021----). Rectangular enclosure (N-S 31m, E-W 21m) defined by a grassed-over collapsed stone wall. An annexe (N-S 10.6m) of similar construction abuts S side. A ringfort (GA028-043003-) lies 20m to SE and a house 100m to N (see under GA028-021----). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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