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Fairy fort / ringfort in Ballybaun (abbey West Ed)

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

Ballybaun holds a faded circular cashel, thirty-seven metres across, where drystone walls still trace the shape of a forgotten fort. It sits barely a hundred and thirty metres from a larger ringfort, suggesting two separate households or perhaps a main hall and a smaller dependent place. The land boundary now cuts across the top of the ruin, turning ancient stone into a modern property line. People may have lived, argued, hidden or worshipped inside that circle before the wall collapsed into grass and memory.
Some 130m SW of a ringfort (GA058-026----) Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 37.7m) defined by a drystone wall which is overlain by the td. boundary from NNW to NNE. 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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