Discover Alone, back to main map

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballycahill

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballycahill, County Galway: an earthen ringfort on a grassy rise, partly erased but still measurable at twenty-two metres across. People may have lived there before the land forgot them, or fairies may have taken the shape and kept it changeable. The surviving bank and ditch mark a boundary between human certainty and local belief, inviting both wonder and caution.
On a rise in gently rolling grassland. Poorly preserved almost circular rath (22.8m E-W; 21.9m N-S) defined by a bank at NW and elsewhere by a scarp. The fosse only survives from W to N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places