What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Pollnamal, County Galway: a ringfort reduced to a curving scarp. The interior was quarried out, and field boundaries cut through what remained. The fairies kept their share of the hill, human hands took the rest.

On a S-facing slope in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m) cut by a field bank at W and NE. By the time of 3rd ed. (1932), it is shown as a roughly circular enclosure (D c. 45m) truncated by field boundaries along W and N sides. All that is visible is a degraded scarp curving from SSE through S to WNW. The interior appears to have been quarried out. 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

A fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Pollnamal is a circular earthen enclosure, likely dating to the early medieval period, used as a defensive or agricultural settlement. It is associated with local folklore surrounding fairies and other supernatural beings, common in Irish tradition for such sites.

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