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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Caherbroder

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Caherbroder holds a worn earthen ring where ancient fields still radiate outward like spokes on a broken wheel. Its shallow banks and inner divisions suggest a lived place, not a empty shape, yet much of its edge has blurred into ordinary ground. The name Fairy fort may be local invention or memory dressed in wonder, but the earth itself preserves the fact that people shaped this land long before modern boundaries crossed it.
In rough grazing land. This poorly preserved subcircular rath (52m E-W; 50m N-S) is defined by a bank of earth and stone from ESE to S, and by a scarp from NNW through N to NNE. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element elsewhere. A gap (Wth 6m) at E appears to be modern. Field boundaries radiate from the monument at NW and N. Within the interior, two banks of earth and stone indicate internal divisions. Another rath (GA128-029----) lies c. 25m to the NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2017

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