What is recorded here
Galway fairy forts are often called ringforts, practical circular homes or defences from the distant past. That is clearer than inventing a warning about fairies. The real strangeness is that people lived, left marks and disappeared while the land kept their shape.
In reclaimed grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m). Apart from a low rise (max. H 0.8m) in the W sector, no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 21 June 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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