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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rahasane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Rahasane is a ruined ringfort, a circular rath nearly thirty metres across, buried under pasture and field walls on a Galway rise. It is not a fairy tale despite its name, but a human dwelling reduced to a shallow ridge of earth and stone. The site still holds the shape of a home even though the walls have surrendered to grass and time.
On a rise in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 29.9m) defined by a bank of earth and stone, which is overlain by a field walls from NW through E to SE. (McCaffrey 1952, 245-6, no. 2) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018

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