Fairy fort or stone ringfort in Carrowrevagh, County Galway

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What is recorded here

In gently rolling pastureland and rock outcrop. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (33.7m N-S; 31m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall best preserved at SE. At N two orthostats, 0.7m apart, may mark the original entrance gap. A field wall cuts through the enclosing element at W. (McCaffrey 1952, 167, no. 15) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 15 September 2017

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA097-073

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