What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Crossconnell More stands on a ridge summit in County Galway, an oval rath thirty-seven and a half metres long with two degraded banks and a hidden fosse. The southeast gap may be the original entrance, inviting entry into a place where human history and fairy story blur. Whoever built it shaped grassland into a room for visibility, ceremony or defense, then disappeared into the kind of forgetting that makes such circles feel alive rather than abandoned.
On a ridge summit in grassland. Oval rath (N-S 37.5m, E-W 24.8m), in fair condition, defined by two degraded banks and an intervening fosse. No visible surface trace of the fosse or outer bank survives from SSW to NNW. A gap (Wth 3.1m) at SE may be original.
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
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