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Lisnaseragh-angall

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
Lisnaseragh-angall
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Lisnaseragh-angall is a degraded fairy fort on a northern Galway slope, its earthworks reduced to a faint scarp and fosse despite measuring nearly thirty metres across. Two small quarries punctuate the circle, suggesting humans once stripped stone from the very boundary markers of the unseen. A modern field boundary now cuts through the northern edge, treating the ancient margin as mere geometry rather than sacred limit. The grassland hides more than it reveals, waiting for footsteps hesitant enough to listen before they judge.
On N-facing slope of a hill in grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 29.5m) defined by a degraded scarp, intervening fosse and outer bank best preserved at SW. There are two small quarries at N and S. A field boundary cuts the monument at NNE. (Neary 1914, 118, no. 37) 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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