What is recorded here

Fairy forts are a trick of the human imagination. The fairy fort in Carrigeen West is a stone ringfort, a circular dwelling or defensive place built by people. The fairy label is local tradition, not fact.

On a rise in scrubland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 223, no. 3) as a circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 32m) defined by a drystone wall which was ‘ruined to the foundations’. The monument is overgrown and field-clearance rubble has been piled around it. The enclosing element is indicated by a very low overgrown stony bank. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 23 January 2017

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