What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Ballyterrim: a broken earthen ring on a Galway ridge, old enough to stop measuring and listen. What is missing is not absence; it is invitation. The field wall does not damage the circle, it completes the story: human hands keep tying the place back into the world.
On a ridge in otherwise level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (ENE-WSW 24.8m, N-S 23.5m) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from E to SSE. A field wall cuts the monument at SSE.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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