Fairy fort or ringfort in Roo, County Galway

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What is recorded here

On a prominent rise in pastureland. While classified by McCaffrey (1952, 248, no. 11a) as a circular ‘Earthen fort’ (diam. c. 35.7m) defined by a bank, he suggests that it might have been ‘a stone fort with earthen cover’. No visible surface trace survives.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA104-253

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