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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tomany Beg

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Tomany Beg: circular earthen ring, 33 metres across, on a hillock in Galway pasture. Its low bank is densely overgrown, and a field wall crosses the east side, yet the shape remains clear enough to walk around and imagine inside. Two other rings lie westward, one near and one farther off, as if the hillside kept several small rooms for people, animals, or the fairies who took them when the fields changed hands.
On a hillock in rolling pastureland. Circular rath (diam. 33m), in fair condition, defined by a low bank (Wth 3.2m; int. H 0.6m; ext. H 1.2m) that is densely overgrown. At E it is overlain by a field wall. A rath (GA116-117----) and a possible rath (GA116-116----) lie c. 35m and c. 175m to the W respectively. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 April 2018

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