What is recorded here

No fort remains in Gorteenfadda, though a circular enclosure once stood at the crossing of four field boundaries. It has vanished into the grassland, leaving behind a shape remembered rather than a wall touched. That absence makes the place more alive, because the border still marks the spot where human hands shaped the land before forgetting erased the result.

In grassland. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 30m) at the junction of four field boundaries. 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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