What is recorded here
Fairy fort is a shallow earthen ring in undulating Galway grassland, measured at about thirty-seven metres across and still visible only through a tree-lined scarp. It may have begun as a rath, then faded into a boundary marker or sacred edge before people stopped naming it plainly. The grass and shadows have done most of the building since, shaping a place where human life and fairy story become hard to separate.
In undulating grassland. Known locally as a ‘lios’, this very poorly preserved almost circular enclosure (37.5m N-S; 36m E-W) is defined by a tree-lined scarp. Possibly a rath that was reused as a landscape feature.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 March 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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