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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Liskeevy

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Liskeevy holds two rings, one known and one forgotten, separated by a hundred and fifty metres of grass and rain. The second is a shallow circular scar twenty-six metres across, its earth bank stripped and blurred until it resembles a breath held under water. Perhaps people lived there before the first ring was built, or perhaps the land simply made a circle and waited for human hands to complete it.
Some 150m SSW of a ringfort (GA016-099----). Poorly preserved circular rath (D 26m) defined by a denuded bank. 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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