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Lisnaroughan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Lisnaroughan
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Lisnaroughan is a fairy fort on a north-facing Galway slope where human ambition bent before ancient claims. Its ring stretched forty-five metres through grass and memory, but the land took back most of the shape. What remains is a low rise, a subtle swelling in the ground that suggests the boundary still exists even when the wall has dissolved.
On a N-facing slope in undulating grassland. Marked on the 1947 revision of the OS 6-inch map as a partially levelled enclosure (c. 45m NW-SE) curving from SE through S to NW. Apart from a low rise, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 April 2019

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