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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Caherakeeny

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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No visible mound or chamber breaks the grass, yet the empty circle still excludes ordinary use. People may have stood inside when the wall held, or simply avoided the place because it belonged to someone else. The fort is not complete, but it is not empty either. It draws attention back to the missing wall and the life that wall excluded.
In undulating grassland immediately E of a field system (GA042-051002-). Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 26m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. 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). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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