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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Glennagarraun

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Glennagarraun holds a broken oval rath, twenty-seven metres long and twenty-one wide, set on a grassy rise where a bank and ditch still mark the edge of a forgotten home. People may have lived there before the stones vanished, tending animals or hiding from storms while the earth kept their shape. The fairies never left, according to local story, and they still walk the ring at night, angry about every boot print pressed into their floor.
On a rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved oval rath (N-S 27m, E-W 20.9m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank survives from E through S to NW, and the fosse from S toW. 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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