What is recorded here
Fiddaun, County Galway, once held a circular earthen ringfort about twenty-five metres across, large enough for a family farm but small enough to disappear when stopped tending. The 1838 survey marked it in grassland beside a NE-SW field boundary, yet no visible trace remains. People may have called it a fairy fort because the land itself seemed to take back what human hands had shaped.
In grassland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m). A roughly NE-SW running field boundary ran immediately outside its SE sector. No visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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