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Fairy fort / ringfort in Kilcurrivard

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Kilcurrivard holds a broken circular cashel, thirty-eight metres across, where collapsed drystone walls still hint at rooms nobody named. The grasslands swallow the edges, but the interior divisions suggest people lived, stored, or hid behind stone before forgetting the shape. A man-made passage waits one hundred twenty metres to the northeast, inviting footsteps into darkness. The fort does not need praise; it needs witness.
In grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 38m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. Within the interior, a series of stone walls may possibly be internal divisions. A probable Man-made underground passage (GA057-122----) lies c. 120m to NE. 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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