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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ben Beg

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Ben Beg holds a shallow circular scar thirty metres wide, its earth lip worn smooth by centuries of grass and forgetting. The name fairy fort suggests something hidden or forbidden, yet the shape remains plain enough to walk beside. Children were buried inside the eastern curve, their small bodies returned to the same ridge where adults once lived or worked. The fort no longer stands proud, but it still marks the difference between ordinary ground and a place set apart for life, death and memory.
On a ridge in grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (33m E-W; 31m N-S) defined by a scarp (H 0.9-2.7m). The interior has been quarried out in a number of places and there is a children's burial ground (GA098-037001-) in E sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2019

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