What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Urraghry, County Galway: a ringfort reduced to a low bank curving north to east on a rise. The old survey marked a full thirty-five-metre circle, but grass and time have erased most of it. What remains is enough to suggest a boundary, a doorway, or a room built for someone no longer named.
On a rise c. 50m SSE of another earthwork (GA087-233----). Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). All that is visible is a low degraded bank curving from N to E; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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