Lisnaportagh, fairy fort in County Galway

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What is recorded here

In tillage overlooking marshy land to SW. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as an oval enclosure (N-S c. 75m, E-W c. 50m). No visible surface trace survives. Probably a bivallate ringfort as Costello (1903, 2-3) noted the existence of 'two mounds and intervening ditch'. The inner face of the inner bank contained 'several large stones still remaining and it was probably when perfect, faced with these boulders' (ibid). II - North Galway'.

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA029-012

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