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Indicated

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated is a collapsed grassed-over cashel in Galway grassland, its drystone wall broken into two faint arcs that disappear under turf. It stands thirty metres across, large enough to hold a family, a herdsman or a fleeing child, though no name has survived to confirm who. A second ringfort waits one hundred and thirty metres to the southwest, suggesting the field once belonged to more than one household or one kind of prayer.
In grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular cashel (D 30.7m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over drystone wall. Inner and outer wall-facing is visible intermittently. A ringfort (GA058-012----) lies c. 130m to SW. 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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