What is recorded here
No fairy fort exists, only a ruined cashel: a circular stone wall about twenty-nine metres across, built with two drystone lines on a gentle north-facing slope in Ballymullen. Its eastern inner wall follows the natural rock outcrop instead of fighting it, and a three-metre gap at the northeast still marks the entrance. The name “fairy fort” is local story, not fact; the stones are human, broken by time, and honest about it.
On a gentle N-facing slope in rock outcrop and rough grazing land. A poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 29m) defined by two collapsed drystone walls. An unusual feature is the incorporation of the natural rock outcrop in the make-up of the inner wall at E. An entrance gap (Wth 3m) is evident at NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 4 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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