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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrownavohanaun

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Carrownavohanaun once held a thirty-two-metre earthen ringfort where people lived, loved and argued before human arrogance forgot the lesson. Machines erased most of that memory during 1976 land reclamation, reducing a complete home to a low southern fragment. A hidden stone wall appeared inside the destroyed bank, suggesting the fairies kept one chamber private even while human hands took the rest.
In reclaimed pastureland. According to the landowner, this rath (diam. c. 32m), which was defined by an earthen bank, was levelled c. 1976 during land reclamation. All that survives is a low bank (Wth 0.9m; base Wth 4m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 0.6m) from S to WSW that is stone faced externally; otherwise no visible surface trace survives. Apparently when the bank was being removed a stone wall (H c. 1m) was noted in the core of it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2019

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