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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Barnaderg North

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

That is all the evidence available. An unknown fort stands 300m from Barnaderg Castle, reduced to a 3.5m collapsed arc after measuring fifty metres across. The missing structure may have been a home, a boundary marker or a forgotten ritual site.
Some 300m SW of Barnaderg Castle (GA044-018----). Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1932) as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m). All that survives is an arc of a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 3.5m) from SSW to NW; no visible surface trace survives elsewhere. A field boundary radiates from the monument at NW, and a field wall cuts it at SSW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 23 July 2015

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