What is recorded here
Fairy forts hide in plain sight. The fort at Ballybroder is gone from the surface, yet its interior still contains a man-made passage and a nearby oval enclosure. That is not a mistake or a blank gap. It is an invitation to stop expecting antiquity to announce itself with walls and medals. On a small rise in ordinary pasture, the ground has kept its shape while human memory loosened its grip. To walk there is to meet the living layer beneath certainty: not a dead ruin, but a place still doing what it has always done, withholding itself until recognized.
On a rise in otherwise level pastureland. Marked on 1st and 3rd (1933) eds. of OS maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. A Man-made underground passage (GA106-010001-) lies within the interior. An oval enclosure (GA106-011----) lies c. 20m to the W.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 13 October 2016
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- What survives
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