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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Mullagh More

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Mullagh More holds a forty-five-metre earthen ring where human hands shaped soil into a boundary long before memory faded. The bank still rises through pasture, marking a life lived inside its circle. Local story calls it a fairy fort, yet the shape and size suggest human residence, with the fairies inheriting what people abandoned.
In level pastureland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 45m) defined by a bank and external fosse. The bank is visible from NW through N to NE and from S to W; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

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