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Fairy fort / ringfort in Keeloges (kilconnell By.)

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Keeloges holds a broken fairy fort where a road cut through the eastern bank and erased half the circle. The remaining stone ring stretches twenty-five metres across grassland, marking a residence older than memory and half-swallowed by modern passage. What the road took, the field still holds: a boundary drawn by human hands, now sharing its space with wheels and rain.
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (D 25m) defined by alow bank from SSE through W to NNE; no visible surface trace survives at E where a road encircles the monument. 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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