Discover Alone, back to main map

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

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

No fairy ever flew there. A human hand stacked every stone, built a round house twenty metres wide, then left it to rot under bramble and forgetfulness. The field boundary laid across the ruin is the truest marker: someone stopped remembering the house and began remembering the land. That is when a home becomes a legend.
In rough grazing land. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (diam. 20.5m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall that is overlain by a later field boundary. The external wall-face is not visible due to dense overgrowth, which in most part is impenetrable. A possible Man-made underground passage (GA103-163001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 December 2017

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
Recorded monument

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places