What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Ballynabucky, County Galway, is a roughly circular rath with a 28.7m diameter, built from a bank of earth and stone on a SE-facing slope in level pastureland. Its fair condition preserves the shape of an old boundary, while a 2.3m gap at SE may be modern rather than an entrance. The fort still marks the land as a place where people once drew a line around their lives.
On a SE-facing slope in level pastureland. Roughly circular rath (diam. 28.7m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone. A gap (Wth 2.3m) at SE may be modern. (McCaffrey 1952, 180, no. 97)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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