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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballygarraun North

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible trace survives at the south end of the esker ridge, though maps and plans preserve a wide embanked enclosure above gently undulating pasture. The vanished bank may have marked a home, a boundary, or a warning kept private by grass and rain.
At the S end of a NE-SW running esker ridge in gently undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as an embanked enclosure (diam. c. 40m). A plan published by Knox (1918b, 113, no. 12) indicates a large enclosure (diam. c. 70m) defined by a bank from WSW through N to ENE. The central area of the interior was naturally raised. However, Cody (1989, 269-70, no. 92) classifies the monument as a ringfort. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 August 2019

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