What is recorded here
Termon’s fairy fort is a collapsed oval cashel where briars and hawthorns strangle the stones, hiding a wall once wide enough to bar a person or a beast. Its narrow modern gaps admit doubt as much as entry, while the faint internal facing at the north edge suggests human hands shaped the ring before grazing and decay softened it. A house site lies seventy-five metres south, perhaps belonging to the same forgotten neighbourhood. The fort no longer commands attention; it waits beneath green noise, remembering the shape of exclusion and the patience of moss.
In an area of rough grazing and rock outcrop; the area immediately around the monument is overgrown with briars and hawthorns. Very poorly preserved oval cashel (37.7m N-S; 32m E-W) defined by a grassed-over collapsed spread of stone (Wth 3.5m; int. H 0.3m; ext. H 0.45m). Internal wall-facing is visible only at N. Narrow gaps at E and SW are modern. A house site (GA128-086----) lies c. 75m to S.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 25 April 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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