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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carrowroe (kilmeen Ed)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Carrowroe holds a faded circular rath, about thirty-eight metres across, where two banks and a ditch still mark the edge of an old residence. A field wall now cuts through the monument, reducing the fort to a shadow in undulating pasture. The connected underground passage suggests people once valued hidden movement through that land, perhaps escaping rain, danger, or ordinary sight.
In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 38m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The internal face of the outer bank is stone-faced at SSW. A field wall cuts through the monument from N to S. A Man-made underground passage (GA106-040001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 September 2017

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