What is recorded here
Aggard More contains a vanished stone ringfort, mapped in 1838 as a subcircular enclosure thirty-three metres wide but lost to scrubland by 1952. The field boundary cutting through it suggests human hands claimed the fort long before records stopped seeing it. What remains is a ghost shape in the terrain, waiting for someone to clear the bramble and remember the stones beneath.
In scrubland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as a subcircular enclosure (c. 33m E-W; c. 31m N-S). McCaffrey (1952, 210, no. 7) classified it as a possible stone fort but recorded that it as 'Not present' during his survey. On inspection in May 1983 due to dense overgrowth it could not be located. The NNW-SSE running field boundary shown on the 1933 edition of the 6-inch map may bisect it.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 16 July 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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