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Indicated

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
Indicated
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Indicated is a ruined stone ringfort on a gentle slope in County Galway, its collapsed wall still marking a broad circle before a field boundary cut through the memory. People may have lived inside that curve, watched weather arrive from the north, and left the stones standing after they departed. The fort has lost most of its shape, but the remaining arc still points back to human hands and the risk of opening a home to the world.
On a gentle N-facing slope. Poorly preserved subcircular cashel (diam. c. 61m) defined by a collapsed drystone wall, best preserved from WSW through W to NNE. A field boundary overlies the enclosing element. (McCaffrey 1952, 190, no. 76a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 19 January 2017

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