What is recorded here

Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Turlough (ballymoe By.) is a subcircular cashel on a north-facing slope in County Galway, measuring about 48 metres east-west and 44 metres north-south. Its grassed-over drystone wall remains best preserved at the south, while modern breaches scatter along the rest. A second ringfort sits roughly 350 metres to the south, suggesting this was not a lonely dwelling but a small cluster of defended lives. People may have herded goats through the gaps at dawn, listened for wolves in the dark, or simply watched the sky tilt over the grass.

On a N-facing slope in grassland. Subcircular cashel (E-W 48m, N-S 44m), in fair condition, defined by a grassed-over drystone wall best preserved at S. A number of breaches in the wall appear modern. A ringfort (GA007-004----) lies c. 350m to S. 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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