What is recorded here
Fairy fort in Pollnahallia, County Galway, is a 25-metre circular cashel whose drystone wall has collapsed at the south and been overlain by a field wall at the north. Grassland and field clearance obscure much of it, but a probable man-made underground passage remains within the interior. People may have lived, hidden or worshipped there before the wall gave way to pasture and forgetting.
In grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 25m) defined by a drystone wall which has collapsed at S, and is overlain by a field wall at N. It is obscured in many places by field clearance. Within the interior is a probable Man-made underground passage (GA042-209001-)
The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999).
Date of upload: 05 August 2010
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