What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Tievemore, County Galway: a subcircular earth-and-stone ring on the east side of Maumfin hill, facing Ballynakill Harbour and the Twelve Bens. Its bank stands about two metres high and encloses roughly twenty metres of interior, with a faint fosse still visible at the southwest. People may have kept animals, hidden during trouble, or simply marked a boundary between fields and sky. The fairies, according to local story, never left; they only stopped answering questions.

In an area of pastureland and gorse on the E side of Maumfin hill with panoramic views of Ballynakill Harbour and the Twelve Bens to the E. This roughly subcircular enclosure (int. diam. 20m; ext. diam. 30m) is defined by a substantial bank of earth and stone (Wth at top 2m; max. H 2m at SW) and traces of a fosse at SW. The monument was brought to the attention of the Archaeological Survey of Ireland by Helen Riekstiņš. Compiled by: Olive Alcock with information supplied by Helen Riekstiņš Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 7 February 2018

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