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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Airgloony

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Airgloony: A circular enclosure about thirty metres across, marked on the first edition Ordnance Survey map but no longer visible on the ground. It sits a hundred metres southwest of another earthwork in County Galway, preserving the shape of a lost local landscape rather than a display for visitors.
Some 100m SW of an earthwork (GA029-006----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). 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

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