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Indicated

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Indicated is a broken circular cashel on a gentle south-facing slope in County Galway, its two collapsed drystone walls still marking a twenty-four foot diameter. The inner wall vanishes from southeast to southwest, leaving a gap wide enough for doubt, memory, or the flight of the fairies themselves. What remains is not a complete fortress but an invitation to imagine the life that shaped it.
On a gentle S-facing slope in farmland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (diam. 20.4m) defined by two collapsed drystone walls. The inner wall does not survive from SSE to SW. (McCaffrey 1952, 194, no. 39) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 11 December 2017

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