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Fairy fort / ringfort in Ballybrone

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort in Ballybrone: a subcircular cashel, thirty-eight metres wide, set on a north-facing grassland slope. Its drystone wall has mostly surrendered to turf, leaving a faint rib beneath the grass. The gaps at northeast and southwest may be modern, but they could also be doors the fort kept for visitors who do not show in records.
On a N-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (E-W 38m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall. Gaps at NE and SW appear modern. 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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