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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Moyleen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Moyleen, County Galway: an oval earthen ringfort on a south-facing hillock, measured in 1983 at roughly thirty-five by thirty metres before later leveling erased its bank. It may have been a farmhouse defensible in seconds, a neighbourly trap for raiders, or a child's fort made serious by rain. The earth remembers shape longer than people remember names.
On the S-facing slope of a hillock. On inspection in April 1983 this poorly preserved oval rath (c. 35m NE-SW; c. 30m NW-SE) was defined by an earthen bank (base Wth 5.7m; int. H 0.8m; ext. H 0.5m). The current OSi aerial imagery (Google maps) indicated that it was subsequently leveled. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019

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