What is recorded here
Fairy forts are human birthplaces, death chambers and storage caves where imagination and memory still move. They are not fake, and they are not empty. A chamber may have been a bedroom, a temple or a children's game. That uncertainty is not a gap, because the living record is still speaking through the shape of the place.
In reclaimed pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 42.3m) defined by a drystone wall. An ENE-WSW running field wall clips the monument at SE and WSW. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA104-055001-) and the remains of two house sites (GA104-055002- and GA104-055003-) within the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 216, no. 76)
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 18 January 2017
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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