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Fairy fort or ringfort in Balrobuck Beg

Fairy fort / ringfort
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What is recorded here

On a gentle E-facing slope. Roughly circular ringfort (D c. 40m) defined by a degraded bank of earth and stone which is visible only at NE. Elsewhere the monument is obscured by dense blackthorn growth. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA056-019

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  • National Inventory of Architectural Heritage
  • Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Picture: turloughmoregaa.ie
  • Malene Thyssen, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0
  • andrew mcmillan, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY 3.0
  • Graham Horn, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0
  • Kmcnamee, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0
  • Graham Horn, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0
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