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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Drumminalough

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

An invisible stone ringfort hides beneath the soil of Drumminalough, marked only on old maps as a subcircular enclosure clipped by a field boundary. A known cashel sits one hundred and twenty metres away, suggesting this ghost site was once another sturdy wall. People may have lived inside the missing circle before ploughs and time erased the stones. The land still holds the shape of a home nobody remembers building.
On a rise in undulating farmland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 31m NE-SW; c. 23m NW-SE) clipped at NE by a NW-SE running field boundary. No visible surface trace survives. A cashel (GA123-045----) c. 120m to the SW suggests that this probably another cashel. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 March 2019

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