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Indicated

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined stone ring in Galway grassland, reduced to a collapsed wall beneath a newer field boundary. It measures thirty-six metres north to south, but the rest has vanished into soil and forgetting. What remains is not a monument but a hint: a circle broken open, half-swallowed, waiting for someone to complete it in their mind.
In grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (N-S 36m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall overlain by a field wall from NNE through E to SSW. No visible surface trace survives elsewhere. 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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