What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Glenaclara East is an oval earthen ringfort on a steep rise, measuring thirty-three by twenty-eight metres, with two banks and a ditch between them. People may have lived there, feared the dark, or simply followed the shape of the hill. The western edge uses the natural slope instead of built earth, as if the land completed what human hands began.

On a steep rise in undulating pastureland. This oval rath (33m NE-SW; 28m NW-SE), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The inner bank survives from N to ENE and from SSE to SW. The fosse is visible all round. The outer bank is evident from ENE to SSW and from NNW to N. At W the natural slope of the hill has been incorporated into the enclosing element. There is a causewayed entrance gap at ENE. A field boundary cuts across the monument from N to SSW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 22 December 2017

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