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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballynascragh

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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