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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tullybeg North,tullybeg South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Quarrying and trackways have bitten into the SE, SW and NW edges, but the fosse and outer bank still curve from SW through N to E. They mark a 56m circular rath on the crest of a ridge in grassland, two banks deep enough to suggest a place set apart rather than merely passed. What is missing at the broken edges may have been a gate, a garden, a boundary or a warning; the surviving curve still draws the eye around its hollow centre.
On the crest of a ridge in grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 56m) defined by two banks and an intervening fosse. The fosse and outer bank are present from SW through N to E. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing elements at SE, SW and NW. A trackway cuts the monument at SE and SW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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