What is recorded here
That is a fairy fort, an oval cashel fifty metres long on a south-facing slope in Treanbaun. People dropped marbles or coins into the hole and ran home before midnight, believing the fairies would claim the life of anyone who stayed to count them. The grassy ridge still marks the boundary, though no wall remains to touch.
On a S-facing slope in grassland; bogland to S. Poorly preserved oval cashel (E-W 50m, N-S 43.5m) defined by a grassed-over drystone wall best preserved at N.
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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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