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Fairy fort / ringfort

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. 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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