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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockatogher

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Knockatogher holds a faded ringfort where a three-metre earthen bank still circles level grassland. The outer ditch has softened into a nettle-filled hollow, but the subcircular shape remains large enough to stop a cart or contain a small household. People may have lived there, fled there or simply marked the land with a boundary visible from a distance.
In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (40m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by an earthen bank (Wth 3m; int. H 0.4m; ext. H 0.8m) and external fosse; the latter survives as a slight nettle-filled hollow from S to W. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2018

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