What is recorded here
That is a fairy fort, not a human home. It belongs to the unseen residents who reject false generosity. They want to be left alone, not decorated or fed.
On roadside in undulating grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1946) as a D-shaped hollow (NW-SE c. 20m) on N side of road but recalled in local tradition as the site of a 'fort'. A house now occupies the site.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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