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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Shangarry

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Shangarry lost its fairy fort in the 1940s when men levelled a thirty-metre ring of earth and stone into ordinary grass. The place still carries the shape of what it swallowed.
On a rise in otherwise level grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). According to local information, the monument was defined by a ‘ring of earth and stone’. It was levelled in the 1940s; no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 June 2019

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What survives
Recorded monument

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