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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Laghtyshaughnessy

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Laghtyshaughnessy in County Galway holds a broken oval cashel, forty to forty-nine metres across, where a collapsed drystone wall disappears under grass and a later field wall. The site is so poor that measurement replaces memory, yet the shape still suggests a fortified place rather than a random heap of stones. Human hands built the ring, time broke it, and farming crossed the ruin without asking permission.
In grassland. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (49m N-S; 40m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall that is overlain from SSW through W to NW by a field wall. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 January 2018

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