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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Killaguile

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Killaguile holds a collapsed rectangular cashel where a stone house still touches the inner wall, proving people lived there before folklore arrived. The fairies came later, borrowing the ruin and refusing to leave it empty.
On W slope of a ridge to SE of Carrowndulla Lough. Poorly preserved rectangular cashel (L 23.8m; Wth 22m) defined by a much-collapsed grassed-over drystone wall. Possible entrance at SSW. Abutting the inner face of the wall at W is a rectangular house (L 10.9m, Wth 7.8m). The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. I - West Galway'. Compiled by Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1993). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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