What is recorded here

No fairy fort in that area matches the description. A real ringfort stands in Bunanraun, Liss, County Clare: a circular earth and stone defense about twenty-eight metres across, with two banks, a ditch between them, and a causeway at the southeast. It sits on a slight rise in open grassland, partly buried under later field walls but still shaped like a small fortified house where people once lived, kept animals, and marked their claim to the land.

On a slight rise in gently undulating grassland. A circular ringfort (D 28m), in fair condition, defined by two banks of earth and stone and an intervening fosse. The inner bank is best preserved from W to NE and is overlain by field walls from NE to E and from SE to W. The fosse has been filled in from ENE through E to SE, and the outer bank survives only at S. There is a causeway across the fosse at SE. The td. boundary cuts the monument at NE and SW. Within the interior is a CBG (GA042-048001-) and a roughly square stone-lined hollow (L/Wth 1m sq.). 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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