What is recorded here

Dunblaney Fort is a lost ringfort, not a fairy tale. The measurement is plain: a circular enclosure about forty-five metres across, with two banks and a fosse on a slight rise in flat Galway grassland. Neary recorded it in 1914, and the local name still uses it. What is missing is not mystery but time: ploughing, drainage and forgetting took the shape from sight. The fairies entered later because people needed a story for what had disappeared.

On a rise in otherwise level reclaimed grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 45m). Neary (1914, 115, no. 103) described it as a 'circular earthen for' enclosed by two banks and a fosse; know locally as 'Dunblayney Fort'. Apart from a faint rise, no visible surface trace survives. 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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