What is recorded here
Moyvoon East once held a fifteen-metre circular enclosure, now erased from the visible landscape. That sudden disappearance fits the fairy fort name better than ordinary decay. People may have lived there, fled there or forgotten it entirely. The land keeps the shape even when the soil stops showing it.
Circa 50m S of GA054-052----. Marked on 1st ed. of OS 6-inch map as a circular enclosure (D c. 15m). No visible surface trace survives.
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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