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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Caherglassaun

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Caherglassaun holds a broken stone ring where human hands first defied the sky. The fairies inherited the crack, not the castle. They wear abandoned human shape until someone remembers the difference. Forgetting is the only door they need.
On N-facing slope of a ridge in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 34m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall surmounted by a modern field wall. No visible surface trace survives from NW through N to E. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 January 2017

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