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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Turloughkeeloge

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible wall remains at the east where a later field cut through the old ring, but the vanished edge still shadows the pasture. The lost fort may have stood as a boundary marker, a refuge, or a household centre before its stones scattered into other walls. A shed now leans against the south side, treating the ancient ring as an ordinary support for modern tools.
On a gentle rise in pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 28m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a field wall. No visible surface trace of the enclosing element survives at E where another field wall cuts through the monument. A shed has been built against the cashel at S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 April 2018

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What survives
Recorded monument

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