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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mannin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Mannin holds a broken fairy fort where a field wall now cuts through ancient earth. The grassland swallows most of the circle, but the bank still resists forgetting. A church and graveyard wait fifteen metres away, suggesting people lived, died and prayed around this marker for generations. The fort may have been a home, a boundary or a warning, yet it remains large enough to walk inside and small enough to overlook.
In grassland. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 29.3m) is defined by a bank of earth and stone. A field wall cuts the monument at ENE and WSW. A church (GA104-195----) and graveyard (GA104-195001-) lie c. 15m to the SE. (McCaffrey 1952, 239-40, no. 106) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 February 2018

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