What is recorded here
Faunin holds a vanished ringfort where a road cut through its southern edge, leaving only twelve metres of low drystone wall in flat Galway farmland. The fort may have stood for centuries before becoming a fairy fort in local memory, its people scattered or forgotten while the stones resisted erasure. What remains is a threshold rather than a ruin: a line of rock across open fields where the ordinary surface thins and the old boundary still shows.
In flat farmland in an area of outcropping rock. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 40m) which was clipped by a NNE-SSW running road at SE. Apart from a short length of drystone walling (L 12; Wth 1.84m; H 0.25m) at NE, no visible surface trace survives.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 5 March 2019
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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