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Indicated

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Indicated is a cashel in County Galway, a subcircular stone ring now swallowed by scrubland and rock. Its wall still marks a shallow bowl twenty-seven metres across, but overgrowth has erased most of the shape. What remains is a line of stones emerging from the vegetation, suggesting a boundary drawn in rock rather than built for display. The land kept the shape long after human hands stopped maintaining it.
In scrubland and rock outcrop. Described by Cody (1989, 245-6, no. 73) as a poorly preserved subcircular cashel (27.5m E-W; 21.5m N-S) defined by a drystone wall, best preserved from S through W to NE. Due to dense overgrowth all that was visible when inspected in May 1992 was the line of the wall from WSW to NW. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 24 November 2017

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