Fairy fort or ringfort in Loughturk West, County Galway

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What is recorded here

Some 85m WNW of a ringfort (GA099-143----), it lies immediately N of a number of ruined buildings marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1947) as 'Mc Dermott's Lodge (in Ruins)'. A D-shaped rath (N-S 31m, E-W 29.5m), in fair condition, defined by a bank from NNE to E and from SSW through W to N. A small outhouse abuts the enclosing element at SW. II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA099-145

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