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Rathbaun

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Rathbaun
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Rathbaun is a fairy fort and earthen ringfort in County Galway, Ireland. It stands as a rounded earthwork where the ground itself seems to have climbed into a ring, marking the landscape with a boundary that feels older than human memory. People may have avoided its center or dropped offerings at its edge, treating the soil as a threshold rather than a field.
In reclaimed pastureland. Subcircular rath (26.8m WSW-ENE), in fair condition, defined by a grassed-over bank of earth and stone from E through S to NNW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. Field-clearance rubble obscures the bank from E to S. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2018

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