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
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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