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Indicated

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
Indicated
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Indicated is a ruined circular cashel on a marshy Galway rise, its wide stone wall barely visible beneath later field boundaries. The fort contains a hollow that may have been an underground passage, now collapsed and filled with loose rock. It is the kind of place where human ingenuity disappeared so completely that only a slight depression and scattered stones remain to suggest it once existed.
On a gentle rise in marshy rough pastureland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 36m) defined by a drystone wall (Wth 2.6m; ext. H 1.1m; int. H 0.5m), which is overlain by a later field wall. A stone-filled hollow, possibly a collapsed Man-made underground passage (GA095-032001-), lies within the interior. (McCaffrey 1952, 129, no. 59a) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 8 December 2017

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