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Fairy fort / ringfort in Garraunard

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Garraunard holds a faded oval cashel where a grassed wall and sharp scarp still draw an incomplete circle across marginal Galway grassland. A central drystone line splits the inside like a forgotten room divider, while a nearby cattle shed and cutting field walls suggest the place has long served ordinary life rather than heroic memory. The chamber may have housed people, excluded herds, or simply marked a boundary nobody recorded.
In marginal grassland. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (N-S 56m, E-W 47.5m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall, except from N to E where a scarp forms the enclosing element. A NE-SW running drystone wall, centrally placed within the interior, may be an internal division. There is a cattle shed to NE of it. A field wall cuts the monument at N and S. 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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