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Lisheen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Thirty-five metres of forgotten ring cuts through Galway grassland, its southern edge erased by a modern road while the northern bank still shadows the bog. The fort has surrendered most of its shape to time and traffic, leaving only a curved scar and a faint ditch to mark where human hands once held the landscape steady. What remains is less a building than a suggestion, a circular breath caught in the terrain, waiting for someone to remember the shape it lost.
In undulating grassland overlooking bogland to the N. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 35m) defined by a tree-lined bank from S through W to NW and elsewhere by a scarp. An external fosse is visible from NNW through N to SE. Gaps in the bank at WSW and W appear to be modern. A road cuts through the monument at SE and SW and no visible surface trace survives to the S of it. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 27 February 2018

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