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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonykeevan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible gate, no central chamber, no hearth mark. The fort is a shallow breath of earth, half forgotten by grass and time. Two rings on one slope, ninety metres apart, as if someone drew a circle, hesitated, then drew it again. The first ring may have held a family. The second may have held what the first family stopped wanting to remember.
On a gentle NE-facing slope. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (48.5m E-W; 45m N-S) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from E through S to W; elsewhere a low scarp forms the enclosing element. The fosse survives from SE through S to W. A gap (Wth 3m) at NNE appears to be modern. Another rath (GA100-065----) lies c. 95m to the NE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

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