What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Beagh, Ballymoe By., County Galway: a circular earthen enclosure about thirty metres across on a grassy rise. No visible trace survives now, though the shape once held a life of doors, firelight and ordinary choices. People may have lived there, fled there or forbidden it; the ground keeps the difference private.
On a rise in gently undulating grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m). No visible surface trace survives.
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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