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Fairy fort / ringfort in Ballyweeaun

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible wall or ditch remains, yet the forgotten circle likely shaped human life on that Galway slope before grass and time erased its edge.
On W-facing slope in undulating grassland. Marked on 1st edition of OS as a subcircular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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Recorded monument

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