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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloran

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Cloran, County Galway: a shallow earthen ring, thirty-six metres across, half-swallowed by pasture and a later field wall. The name suggests people once refused to explain it, throwing the unknown toward fairy rather than admit they had forgotten the human hand. That refusal is not stupidity; it is a boundary marker, a way of keeping the unknown alive instead of flattening it into fact.
In undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (36.2m NE-SW; 34.6m NW-SE) defined by a bank. A field wall overlies the monument from NNW through E to SSE. A possible Man-made underground passage (GA096-061001-) is associated. (Cody 1989, 252-3, no. 78) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 29 November 2017

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