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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballydonagh (longford By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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No fairy fort in Ballydonagh, Longford. The facts point to County Galway. A clear answer needs the right place and its own facts.
On a slight rise in grassland, immediately S of a rath (GA099-022----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS map as a pair of conjoined enclosures, see also GA099-022001-. This S example was subcircular (c. 50m N-S) in plan. It consists of a bivallate rath defined by two poorly preserved banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. A field boundary overlies most of the outer bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

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