What is recorded here

Indicated is a ruined fairy fort in County Galway where the Gort-Ennis road now cuts through what once stood as a complete circle. The remaining wall barely rises above the grass, yet mortar still clings to a small western outbuilding, proving people lived there before forgetting began. A children’s burial ground lies nearby, suggesting the fort was not merely a boundary but a home where life and death shared the same low ground.

In low-lying grassland. Very poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 32m) defined by a collapsed grassed-over wall from SW through W to N. A section of walling (Wth 0.75m) at W with traces of mortar, suggesting it was once plastered, may be the remains of a small outbuilding that is shown on the 1938 edition of the OS 6-inch map. A field wall overlies the enclosing element from W to N. From N to E the Gort-Ennis road cuts through the monument. A children’s burial ground (GA128-087001-) is associated. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 26 April 2018

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