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Lisnabitteen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Lisnabitteen
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Lisnabitteen was a subcircular ringfort in flat Galway grassland, broad enough for houses and narrow enough to force every resident into daily contact. A field boundary later cut through its heart, erasing the shape that once defined the neighbourhood. The fort disappeared beneath ordinary farming, yet it still measures the distance between human ambition and forgetting.
In flat grassland. Marked on the OS 6-inch maps as a subcircular enclosure (c. 40m N-S; c. 35m E-W). A field boundary cut through the monument from N to SSW. No visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 February 2019

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