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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyshea,pollnashinnagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Pollnashinnagh holds two earthen banks and a shadowed fosse on a gentle north-facing slope, marking a place where human hands shaped the land before memory faded. The southern gap invites entry while an underground passage emerges in the northwest, suggesting the fort contained more than an ordinary farmstead. Cows still walk the grass above buried stone, unaware that they graze a chamber built to keep out rain, theft or forgetting.
On a gentle N-facing slope in pastureland. This well-preserved rath is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. There is a causewayed entrance gap at S. The townland boundary wall overlies the outer bank from SW to NNE. No visible surface trace of the internal stone-facing noted by McCaffrey (1952, 245, no. 150) on the inner bank survives. This site of a Man-made underground passage (GA104-065001-) is evident in the NW quadrant of the interior and in the S sector a subdivision that is subrectangular (L 20.2m; Wth 16.1m) in plan. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

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