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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cahercormick,glebe (dunkellin By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Cahercormick, glebe (dunkellin By.) is a lost ringfort in County Galway farmland. It appeared on maps as a circular or oval earthen enclosure between 1838 and 1952, but farm buildings and destruction removed its visible trace. The land may have held a home, a boundary marker, or a forgotten gathering place before human activity erased it.
In mixed farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m). On the 1933 map edition it is more irregular in plan (c. 70m N-S; c. 40m E-W) and the NE sector is occupied by farm buildings. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 151, no. 46) as a ‘much destroyed’ oval ‘Earthen fort’ (c. 73m N-S; c. 26m E-W). No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

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