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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Carrowconlaun,kilwullaun

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Carrowconlaun in Kilwullaun holds a worn oval cashel where a low drystone wall still marks the south edge while the rest has surrendered to grass. The fairies may have taken the visible stones, but they left behind a man-made underground passage within the interior, proving the fort was more than a child's game with rocks. That hidden chamber turns the ruined ring into a threshold: a place where human hands built, memory faded, and imagination stepped through the gap.
In gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved oval cashel (N-S c. 41m, E-W c. 36m) defined by a low drystone wall at S, otherwise no visible surface trace survives. Within the interior is a Man-made underground passage (GA042-019001-) 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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