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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-seven metres across, its earthen bank and outer ditch still clear on a south-west facing slope. The gap at the bottom may be the entrance used when people lived inside, while local tradition calls it a fairy fort, as if the boundary between human history and imagination still breathes through the field.
On a SW-facing slope in pastureland. Well-preserved circular rath (diam. 27.2m) defined by a bank and external fosse. A gap at SW may mark the original entrance. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

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