What is recorded here

Addergoole Beg was a circular earthen fort about thirty metres across, standing on a grassy ridge above a small stream. It vanished completely, leaving no visible trace despite appearing on early maps and earning a local name. The land swallowed the boundary, erasing the fort while preserving the memory that something solid once resisted the sky.

On a ridge in grassland overlooking a small stream to S. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) and noted by Neary (1914, 121, no. 157) as a 'circular, earthen fort', known locally as 'Addergoole-Beg Fort'. No visible surface trace survives. 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

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Addergoole Beg is a circular, earthen enclosure, likely dating to the early medieval period, based on its form and 19th-century descriptions. It is associated with local folklore referring to it as a site of supernatural significance, possibly linked to the "fairy folk."

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