What is recorded here
Polldonoghoe holds a broken stone ring where human hands once bent wood, torchlight and fear into a small defensible world. The wall has collapsed under grass, but the circle still marks the edge of a life that refused to be swallowed by the wilderness. Fairy fort is a nickname born of wonder, not proof. The shape suggests people, the story suggests something else, and both can be true in the same field.
On a gentle SE-facing slope in pastureland. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (24.5m N-S; 22.5m E-W) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 6 March 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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