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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Pollnagroagh

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Pollnagroagh held a thirty-metre stone ring on level pastureland, but human hands or heavy wheels erased the wall before 1983. Hawthorn bushes now choke the interior, hiding the boundary beneath green growth. The fairies kept their fort by denying it to everyone else.
In an area of level pastureland and rock outcrop. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). On inspection in October 1983 the enclosing wall had been levelled and apart from loose stones scattered about in the interior of the site and externally, no visible surface trace survived. The interior was overgrown with hawthorn bushes. (Cody 1989, 280-81, no. 106) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 June 2019

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