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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Brierfort

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Marianne and the anonymous man stood inside the finished chamber, not before a camera or a control panel. They dropped the last of the heavy chain through the floor, pulled it back, and watched the chamber wall move like a living thing.
In level grassland overlooking bogland to W. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 36m) defined by a degraded scarp with traces of an external fosse at S. 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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