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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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Indicated is an oval fairy fort on a NE-facing Galway slope, its earth bank partly swallowed by a later field wall. The missing southern arc does not read like decay but like withdrawal, as if the ring pulled inward to hide its underground passage and chamber. A person walking that grassland at dusk may still feel the tilt of the ground, not as memory but as invitation.
On a NE-facing slope in grassland. Oval ringfort (N-S c. 45m, E-W c. 25m), in fair condition, defined by a bank of earth and stone which is overlain by a field wall from N to SE. No visible surface trace survives from SE through S to SW. Within the interior is a probable Man-made underground passage (GA041-001001-) and a CBG (GA041-001002-) is associated. (O'Flanagan L, 163) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Galway Vol. II - North Galway'. Compiled by Olive Alcock, Kathy de hÓra and Paul Gosling (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1999). Date of upload: 05 August 2010

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