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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Cloonnahaha

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Cloonnahaha holds a ruined stone ring on a hill slope, marked locally as a fairy fort and containing a hidden underground passage. The visible wall has collapsed into a shallow circle, yet the buried tunnel suggests people shaped the place for delivery, birth, warning or memory. Whether human or fairy, the site still points to a time when that hill was busy and the boundary between worlds was thin.
On the NW-facing slope of a hill. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (c. 26m NW-SE) defined by a collapsed drystone wall (Wth 2m; base Wth 5.3; int. H 0.3-0.7m; ext. H 0.2-1.7m) which is visible all round. The interior slopes from SE to NW. A Man-made underground passage (GA122-049001-) lies in the W sector. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Updated by: Olive Alcock Date of revised upload: 10 September 2019

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