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Fairy fort / ringfort in Cuilnacappy

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Cuilnacappy held a large oval fort on a grassy slope before the land swallowed it. The vanished boundary likely enclosed homes, herds or gods, while people breathed inside its missing walls.
On N-facing slope of a rise in grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as an oval enclosure (c. 45m by c. 30m). 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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