What is recorded here
No fairy ever flew there, though the name still belongs to the fort. Earth, rain and time built what the legend avoids naming. A family may have lived inside the circle before memory failed them. The ground kept the shape of their choice while people forgot the rest.
In undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (49m E-W; 46m N-S) defined by a
bank and external fosse. The fosse is best preserved from NW through N to NE; elsewhere a band of vegetation indicates its outline. There is a causewayed entrance gap (Wth 4.5m) at NE.
Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG
Date of upload: 15 January 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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Church of Saint John the Baptist (Donanaghta)church/chapel · 625 yd
IndicatedFairy fort / earthen ringfort · 1.0 mi
Redmond HillMountain / peak · 1.3 mi
Silver FirSilver Fir · 2.4 mi
European ashEuropean ash · 2.9 mi
Killeen's IslandIsland · 3.3 mi
MeelickVisitor information · 3.3 mi
Friars IslandIsland · 3.4 mi