What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Alloon Upper: a 39-metre earthen ring, still round in the undulating grassland, with a bank, an outside ditch and a narrow southern gap that may be the original entrance. It is the kind of place where the boundary between human and fairy stops being argument and becomes shape: a room large enough to walk through, small enough to keep a secret.

In undulating grassland. Circular rath (D 39m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. A gap (Wth 3m) at S could be original. 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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