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Fairy fort / ringfort in Lecarrowmactully

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Lecarrowmactully holds a subcircular ringfort forty to forty-five metres across, built from earth and stone on a grassy rise. It is not a distant myth but a shaped feature of the land, large enough to enter, exclude and remember. The fair condition of its bank suggests people kept clearing, walking and using the place long after it stopped being new.
On a rise in gently rolling grassland. Subcircular ringfort (N-S 45m, E-W 40m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone. A field wall abuts the monument at W. 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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