What is recorded here
Pollacorragune held a thirty-five metre ringfort above low pasture, visible only as a faint ridge before the land claimed it back. The name suggests people once doubted human authorship, pushing the structure into fairy legend because ordinary explanation failed them. That doubt is not nonsense; it is memory losing its facts. A circle large enough to exclude, sturdy enough to remain on a survey map, and absent enough to vanish from sight fits a place where people stopped asking questions and started inventing owners.
In a prominent position in low-lying pastureland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 35m). Apart form a barely perceptible 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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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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