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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilcarrooraun

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Kilcarrooraun holds a well-preserved circular rath twenty-five metres across, its earth and stone bank still standing on a sunny ridge slope. Cattle graze beside the ancient ditch, unaware that a field boundary now cuts through the southeast wall. The fort has watched the land for centuries, keeping its shape while human marks blur around it.
On the S-facing slope of a ridge in pastureland. This well-preserved circular rath (diam. 25.3m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone and an external fosse. A field boundary overlies the bank at SE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

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