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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonaghgarve

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible wall, no chamber, no chamber. Only a shallow dip and a forgotten name. The land keeps what people stopped seeing.
On N-facing slope of a steep rise in grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D 28m) defined by a degraded scarp. Within the interior is a CBG (GA016-040001-). 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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Recorded monument

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