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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Parkbaun (dunkellin By.)

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort and stone ringfort in Parkbaun, County Galway, is a circular cashel about 21 metres wide on a hillock in undulating pastureland. Its drystone wall has collapsed and become grassed over from the northeast to the south and west, while a field wall cuts across it and no clear trace remains to the northwest. The place may have been a home, a boundary marker or a feeding ground for stories, but its shape still resists forgetting.
On the summit of a hillock in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 21m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall from NE to S to W. A field wall cuts across the monument from NE to W and no visible surface trace survives to the NW of it. (McCaffrey 1952, 243, no. 116) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017

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