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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Boyhill

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy forts are earthen ringforts abandoned before written memory. In Boyhill, a subcircular bank still marks a dwelling place on a south-facing slope, with a wide gap at the northeast where an entrance may have stood. Cattle graze around it now, but the shape remains clear enough to imagine people living inside, not fantasising about it.
On a S-facing slope in pastureland. Subcircular rath (30m E-W; 28m N-S), in fair condition, defined by a bank best preserved at S and W. A wide gap (Wth c. 10m) is visible at NE. (Knox 1918b, 123) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

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