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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Clogh North

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible surface trace survives in the flat Galway farmland, but a circular enclosure nearly forty metres wide still haunts the land. The fort has vanished into soil and memory, leaving behind a hollow shape rather than a wall. It may have been a home, a boundary marker, or a child's imagined castle, but the erased circle suggests people once drew a line around life itself.
In flat farmland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. 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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