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Fairy fort / ringfort in Carrownamona

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

That is the fairy fort at Carrownamona: a vanished ringfort in flat Galway pasture, large enough to hold a household or a herds, now reduced to a shallow semicircle and a field of grass.
In flat pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 38m E-W; c. 34m N-S). Apart from a slightly raised semicircular area (diam. c. 20m; H 0.5m), no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 February 2019

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