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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Fiddaun (kiltartan By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fiddaun holds a broken ring of earth and stone on a low hillock above a lake, preserving only a curved bank and traces of a stone-lined entrance. The missing southern section suggests human hands or time erased what remains, yet the surviving curve still marks a boundary drawn across open country.
On a low hillock overlooking a lake to the NE. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (39.5m N-S; 36m E-W) defined by a bank of earth and stone from SW through N to E. Stone-facing is evident on the inner face of the bank at N. Traces of the N side of a possible stone-lined entrance gap are visible at E. Immediately to the S of this a large pit has been dug into the monument and no trace of the bank survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 December 2017

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