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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rinneen (ed Kiltartan)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible trace remains of the circular enclosure, yet it still resists forgetting. Fields and roads cut through the space where people once drew a line around their lives. The earth forgot the shape, but the region keeps the rhythm of that boundary.
In level farmland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 24m). A NW-SE running field boundary cut across it from W to SSE and a NE-SW running road clipped from E to SE. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 31 July 2019

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