What is recorded here
Flowerhill is the last visible address for the vanished fort, but the field still holds its shape. Under the grass lies a circular chamber forty-five metres across, large enough for a family, a forger or a festival. The fairies may have taken it when the boundary line cut through, or they may have simply stopped needing a wall.
On a rise in otherwise level grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular
enclosure (diam. c. 45m). A NNE-SSW running field boundary clipped it at W. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 19 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Site of Flower Hill Ho.House, 18th/19th century · 394 yd
Flowerhill Housecountry house · 446 yd
Flower Hill Ho.House, 18th/19th century · 447 yd
IndicatedFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1177 yd
Site of CastleCastle, unclassified · 1202 yd
Church HillMountain / peak · 1.9 mi
Pallas CastleCastle, tower house · 2.2 mi
Bog WoodForest · 2.3 mi
Oak WoodForest · 2.4 mi
Stonyisland BayBay · 3.8 mi
Friar's IslandIslet · 4.3 mi
Long IslandsIslet · 4.3 mi