What is recorded here

No visible wall remains on the Ballyclery rise, but a vanished stone ring once cut the grass. That missing circle is not an empty claim; it is a shape the land still holds. A fort needs people, fire and time, while a fairy fort needs imagination. Both can be true in the same field.

On the summit of a rise in rough grazing land. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 262, no. 1b) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. 34.75m) defined by the foundations of a drystone wall. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 October 2016

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