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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrownakib

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Ancestral hands built the ring in Galway, but time and fields strangled the shape. The underground passage still waits inside the grass, hiding the purpose of the fort.
On a hillock in gently undulating grassland. A very poorly preserved subcircular rath (N-S 32m) defined by a denuded bank from NW through N to NE, and by a scarp from SE through S to SW. Field walls overlie the enclosing element at E and W. There is a probable Man-made underground passage (GA041-018001-) in the interior. 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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