Ballyfintan Fort — Report the wrong picture

What is recorded here

No visible fort exists at Ballyfintan. What remains is a shallow circular dip, partly hidden by grass and farm activity, large enough to suggest an enclosed home but worn smooth by time. If people lived there, they did so without leaving much behind: no standing wall, no clear doorway, no name preserved in the evidence provided. The land has taken back most of the shape, leaving only a gentle curve that might once have held a family, a herd, or a small everyday world now indistinguishable from ordinary ground.

On a S-facing slope in undulating pastureland. Poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 34m) defined by an earthen bank from NE through S to NW; elsewhere a scarp forms the enclosing element. A field boundary cuts the monument at NE and NW; a wide gap (Wth 6.2m) is evident at SSE. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 October 2016

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