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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carhoon (longford By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible castle, no church tower, no boundary wall. Only a shallow scoop in the grass, slightly wider than a house, holding rain after storms. That much remains. Whether people lived there, marked territory, or invented the shape after forgetting it, the land still repeats the same line. A fort needs a wall, a door and a owner. The scoop has none of those. It has only rhythm, which is why it resists explanation.
On a rise in undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved subcircular rath (29.8m N-S; 24.3m E-W) defined by a scarp. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 February 2019

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Recorded monument

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