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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killeenavarra

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Killeenavarra holds a faded ringfort where a collapsed field wall now straddles an ancient earth bank. The fort faces south on a low hill, exposing whatever lived inside to winter rain and summer heat. Its shallow circle suggests people valued visibility as much as protection, watching the pastureland while accepting that storms would erase their edges.
On the S-facing slope of a low hill in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath(diam. 24m) defined by a bank which is overlain by a collapsed field wall from SE through S to W. (McCaffrey 1952, 274, no. 8) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

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