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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballindrimna

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy fort, also known as an earthen ringfort, in Ballindrimna, is a circular rath about 40 metres across, set in low-lying grassland in County Galway. Its earth bank has largely vanished from the west to the north, leaving only a faint trace behind grass and rain. People may have lived there, herded animals or simply marked the edge of a field, but the shape still suggests a boundary drawn in soil. What is missing has not stopped the place keeping its form; it has only become harder to read.
In low-lying grassland. Poorly preserved roughly circular rath (diam. c. 40m) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from W to N. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 12 October 2016

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