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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballylee (kiltartan By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Thirty-six metres of drystone circle still stands on the steep rise above the Streamstown River, though a road now cuts cleanly through what once enclosed. The wall survives best at the southwest, while field stones bury the rest, suggesting the fort gave way to farming long before anyone measured it. An underground passage remains nearby, waiting for the kind of darkness that makes people imagine fairies instead of admitting they simply forgot who dug it.
On the summit of a steep rise overlooking the Streamstown River to S. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam c. 36m) defined by a drystone wall best preserved at SW. Elsewhere the enclosing element is overlain by field walls, and a road cuts through the monument from NNW to ESE. A Man-made underground passage (GA123-017001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 25 November 2016

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