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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonlahan (eyre),cloonlahan (geoghegan),derreenboy

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Half the circle vanished into grass and memory, but the surviving curve still measures thirty-three metres of human ambition. Children lie buried in the north-west quadrant, their small bones tucked inside the fort like a secret kept from the fairies who supposedly claimed the site. The earth forgot the eastern banks while the western ones held their shape, creating a broken ring where human and fairy stories collide.
In low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 33.5m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the enclosing elements survives from NE through E to SW. A children's burial ground (GA099-064001-) lies in the NW quadrant of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

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