What is recorded here

Blindwell holds a forty-two-metre earthen ring on a grassy hummock, its stone-and-dirt bank still standing against centuries of rain. Field boundaries now cut through the eastern and western edges, yet the circular shape remains clear enough for a person to walk the inside and measure the distance with their own feet. The fort may have served as a sturdy home, a trading post or a marked boundary for a local group. It is not a vague fairy tale but a made place where human hands shaped the land and lived inside the result.

On a hummock in grassland. Circular ringfort (D 42m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone from E through S to W, and elsewhere by a scarp. Field boundaries cut the monument at E, SE and W. Possible internal divisions visible within the interior. 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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