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Fairy fort or ringfort in Ballybanagher

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

On WNW-facing slope of a low hill. Poorly preserved oval rath (E-W 47.6m, N-S 32m) defined along NW by a denuded earthen bank, and elsewhere by a degraded scarp. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA057-034

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Mike Searle, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Visit Galway; photographer not stated, Visit Galway
  • ClintMalpaso, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • liam murphy, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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