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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Boyhill

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible bank survives from the southeast through the south to the west, yet the missing curve is still written in the land. Three field boundaries cut the ruin and meet near its centre, as if the fort had taught the fields to spiral inward. Whatever lived inside that circle stopped being a home and became a shape for owning grass. The fairy fort is no longer a fort at all, but a fort-shaped hole in the memory of the townland, waiting for someone to stop measuring it and start listening.
In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (c. 34m E-W) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from SE through S to W. Three field boundaries, which cut the monument at NNE, S and WNW, converge in the interior, just to E of centre. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

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