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Lisnafahy

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Lisnafahy is a circular rath thirty-one metres across in Galway grassland, its earth bank broken by a field wall and scarped edges. It is not a grand fortress but a lived boundary, the kind of place where people drew a line around their own lives and called the inside home.
In grassland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 31m) defined by a bank from WNW through N to ENE; elsewhere a scarp, surmounted by a field wall, forms the enclosing element. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 January 2017

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