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Rathmonere

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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On a steep N-facing slope in scrubland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 34m) defined by a bank from NE through S to NW. The townland boundary wall overlies the enclosing element from SE to NW. (Holt 1912, 228; McCaffrey 1952, 122, no. 36) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 6 March 2018
On a steep N-facing slope in scrubland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. c. 34m) defined by a bank from NE through S to NW. The townland boundary wall overlies the enclosing element from SE to NW. (Holt 1912, 228; McCaffrey 1952, 122, no. 36)

From the National Monuments Service (Archaeological Survey of Ireland) record GA094-014

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Pictures: Ian Capper, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0; Ian Capper, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Mike Searle, Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 2.0; Joseph McGinley, Geograph · CC BY-SA 2.0

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