What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballyterrim is a well-preserved earthen ringfort on a grassy rise in County Galway, measuring about thirty metres across. Its degraded bank still marks a subcircular enclosure, with a possible original gap at the west and a second ringfort nearby. The name suggests people once believed the site belonged to fairy tradition rather than ordinary history.

On a rise in undulating grassland. Well-preserved subcircular ringfort (WSW-ENE 31m, N-S 30m) defined by a degraded bank of earth and stone with slight traces of an external fosse at NNW. A field wall cuts the monument at NE and SE. A gap (Wth 2m) at WNW may be original. A ringfort (GA099-038----) lies c. 130m to N. 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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