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Fairy fort / ringfort in Lecarrowmactully

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Lecarrowmactully holds a circular rath twenty-eight metres wide, its overgrown bank and western ditch still visible in gently undulating Galway grassland. The structure is poorly preserved and punctured by modern breaches, yet its shape resists forgetting. People may have lived there, fled there or simply walked past it, but the land kept the circle intact long enough for others to measure it.
In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (D 28.7m) defined by an overgrown bank and external fosse; the latter survives from W to NW. Numerous breaches in the bank appear modern. 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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