What is recorded here

The fairy fort in Gortroe, County Galway, stands on a prominent hillock where a circular drystone wall once enclosed a small dwelling or refuge. By 1992 most of that ancient boundary had been levelled, leaving only a faint scarp and a hidden passage beneath the pasture to hint at its shape. The loss is not total because the land still holds the ghost of a human home, waiting for someone to notice the slight rise where a wall once stood.

On a prominent hillock in pastureland. When initially visited by the Survey in May 1983, this poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 37.8m) was defined by a drystone wall which was overlain by a field wall at W. A possible Man-made underground passage (GA104-144001-) was noted in the NE quadrant of the interior. When revisited in 1992 most of the monument had been levelled, except the section beneath the field wall from SW to NW; elsewhere a slight scarp indicated the line of the wall. (McCaffrey 1952, 231, no. 120) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 January 2018

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