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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killadullisk

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Killadullisk held a D-shaped fort with a straight western edge, visible on maps until the 1960s. People removed its stone wall for an outhouse, then levelled the remainder during land reclamation. The fairy fort disappeared into ordinary farm ground, leaving only a low mound and a name remembered by locals.
Some 80m to the NE of another possible rath (GA107-103----). Marked on the 1945 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a roughly D-shaped enclosure (c. 27m E-W) with straight W side (L c. 40m). According to local information, it was known as a ‘fort’ and was defined by a bank and fosse, and possibly an outer bank. A stone wall surrounded the monument but that was removed to build an outhouse to the N. The monument was subsequently levelled in the 1960s during land reclamation. All that survives is a low irregular mound. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 2 April 2019

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