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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Drumbulcaun

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Magic and myth belong to every place, but this is a cashel: a round stone fort thirty-three metres across, still standing in Drumbulcaun. It lies a hundred metres south of another ringfort, with field walls radiating north and southeast as though the land itself were drawn outward from the circle. The drystone wall remains strongest from southeast through west to north, preserving the shape of a place where people once lived, worked and marked their claim to the earth.
Some 100m S of a ringfort (GA030-052----). Circular cashel (D 33.5m), in fair condition, defined by a drystone wall best preserved from SE through W to N. Field walls radiate from the monument at N and SE. 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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