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Fairy fort / ringfort in Aucloggeen,tomnahulla

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Poorly preserved subcircular cashel in Aucloggeen, tomnahulla. A collapsed drystone wall still marks the north edge, while the south has surrendered to scrubland and boundary cuts. Whatever lived inside has vanished except for occasional foundation stones and the shape of absence itself.
In scrubland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (NNE-SSW 45m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall at N. The td. boundary cuts the monument at E and W, to S of which, apart from an occasional foundation stone, no visible surface trace survives. 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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Recorded monument

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