What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Stonepark (ballymoe By.) is a collapsed cashel in County Galway, Ireland. It is a possible cashel, not a complete ringfort, because the wall has fallen and grass covers most of it. The stones still mark a subcircular place where people may have kept animals, hidden in storms or simply lived beside the limestone.

In rough pasture sloping towards the SW, within the W half of a relict field system (GA058-099002-). This possible cashel (27.8m E-W), subcircular in plan, is defined by a grassed-over and completely collapsed stone wall (Wth 2.2-2.8m; int. H 0.3-.4m; ext. H 0.2-0.3m). It is heavily overgrown with furze, bramble and briars at SW and its outline is irregular in the N sector, where outcropping limestone is also visible. The interior slopes to the SW and more limestone outcrop is visible intermittently. Some thorn bushes are also growing in the interior. Aerial imagery (OSi MapGenie imagery (1995)) shows a smaller subcircular enclosure or annexe (c. 12m E-W; c. 10m N-S) immediately to the W of the cashel. An enclosure (GA058-099001-) lies c. 125m to the NE. The following image has been uploaded: GA058-099003-_01 General view of the collapsed and grassed-over cashel wall at S Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 29 November 2022

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