What is recorded here

Keamsellagh East once held a thirty-metre earthen ringfort containing a man-made underground passage. Farmers erased the visible fort and boundary during land reclamation, pushing the ancient structure deeper into obscurity. The grassland still covers the hole where human hands built a chamber beneath the soil.

In level grassland. Marked on the 3rd edition of the OS 6-inch map (1933) as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) with a field boundary curving around the W half of the monument. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 195, no. 73) as an ‘Earthen fort’ within which there was a Man-made underground passage (GA103-123001-). No visible surface trace survives due to land reclamation. The field boundary has also been cleared away. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Keamsellagh East is a roughly circular early-medieval enclosure, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries, used as a defensive or agricultural settlement. It is associated with local folklore surrounding fairies and other supernatural beings, common in Irish tradition for such sites.

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