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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lisnagry

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Two earthen banks and a shadowy ditch enclose a hundred-foot circle where a hidden passage still cuts through the western ground. The fort stands sixty-five metres from its twin, marking a crowded Neolithic or Bronze Age settlement rather than a lonely fairy dwelling. People may have lived, hidden or worshipped inside that dark tube, using the earth itself as a room.
Some 65m to the E of a another rath (GA106-120----). This circular rath (diam. c. 50m), in fair condition, is defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. Gaps occur in the banks at N and S (each Wth 2m). A field boundary overlies the outer bank from SW through N to SE. A Man-made underground passage (GA106-121001-) lies in the W sector of the interior. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 January 2018

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