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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilcooly

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Kilcooly holds a fading forty-five-metre ring where a field wall now cuts through ancient earth. The grassland rolls over the bank like a living thing, hiding the shape of hands that built it. A house stands beside the ruin, and an underground passage may still breathe beneath the soil. The fort has surrendered much of its form, but it has not stopped occupying the landscape.
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 45m) defined by a bank. A field wall cuts through it from NE to SW and a house has been built to its S. A possible Man-made underground passage (GA106-057001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 1 December 2017

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