What is recorded here
Fiddaun holds a circular rath twenty-three metres wide, its earth bank and outer ditch still visible beneath grass and forgetfulness. A field wall cuts across the monument, proving that human convenience has repeatedly trampled older boundaries. The fairies may have built it first, but people kept using the land until they stopped seeing the shape at all.
In rolling pastureland. Poorly preserved overgrown circular rath (diam. 23.3m) defined by a bank and external fosse. A field wall cuts across the monument at NNW and SSE. (McCaffrey 1952, 230, no. 144)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 December 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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