What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Crossconnell More: a shallow circular ditch and bank on open farmland, about thirty metres across. People may have lived there, excluded others, or marked the boundary between the ordinary world and the fairy world. The earth still holds the shape even when human memory has gone thin.
On a rise in farmland. Poorly preserved almost circular enclosure (E-W 31m, N-S 30m) defined by a low earthen bank, best preserved from N through E to S. A low earth bank running E-W through the interior may be associated.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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