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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilmeen,moyleen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Kilmeen,moyleen holds a faded circular rath, thirty-five metres across, where a boundary wall now cuts through what was once a complete earthen ring. The bank has thinned to a whisper under grass and time, but the shape remains clear enough to imagine lives lived inside it. Fairy fort is the local name, yet human hands built it, and human feet likely worn its entrance smooth before the wall arrived.
On a hill in flat pastureland. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 35m) is defined by slight traces of the enclosing bank. The townland boundary wall cuts across it from roughly E to W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 28 March 2019

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