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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballycuddy,ballynacurragh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Nobody knows when the fort was built or who lived inside it, but the earth remembers the shape of a home even when the wall has gone. A circular bank still marks the boundary of a small dwelling place, wide enough for a family, a herd, or a quiet life lived under an open sky. The field wall cut through later, and grass took back the rest, yet the circle remains visible on the slope. In that sense the fort is not lost. It has simply stopped announcing itself.
In rough grassland on an E-facing slope. Poorly preserved circular rath(diam. 24m) defined by a bank. A field wall cuts through the monument at NW and S and no visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives to E of it. (McCaffrey 1952, 190, no. 1) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

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