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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Prospecthill

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Prospecthill holds a forty-metre earthen ring where human hands shaped stone and soil into a boundary long before memory faded. The grassland rise still carries the weight of that choice, even though the bank has blurred into the land. A house may have stood within its southern edge, lighting the dark and holding life steady against the storm. The fairy name is a later gift, but the shape is not a mistake. It is a room built for people, waiting to be remembered.
On a gentle rise in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 40m) defined by a bank of earth and stone. Within the SW quadrant of the interior is a possible house site (GA094-043001-). (McCaffrey 1952, 121, no. 35) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 9 December 2016

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