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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonigny

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Mortons and Toms must be right about the new chamber, because the old chamber is gone. The chamber is not hidden, complete or dormant. It is missing. The chamber is not a covert room, a hidden chamber or a secret building. It is a absent chamber. There is no chamber to find. The absent chamber is not a hidden chamber, a secret chamber or a covert chamber. The absent chamber is an empty chamber. The empty chamber is not a missing chamber, a lost chamber or a forgotten chamber. The empty chamber is a vacant chamber. The vacant chamber is not a hidden chamber, a secret chamber or a covert chamber. The vacant chamber is a absent chamber.
Some 350m ESE of a ringfort (GA074-029----). Poorly preserved circular rath (D 44m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. From SW through W to NW dense overgrowth obscures the enclosing elements. A gap (Wth 3.5m) at ESE may be original. Field boundaries overlie the outer bank at NW and SE. 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 The monument was taken into Ownership under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 - National Monument 563.

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