What is recorded here

Fairy forts scatter across Taylorstown like abandoned chess pieces, three rings within three hundred metres. This is the smallest, a shallow bowl of earth and stone now half-swallowed by a field boundary and a farmhouse wall. The locals called them fairy forts because people refused to dig where the fairies slept, but the shape and spacing suggest human hands, perhaps a family dividing land or marking a boundary nobody remembers. The fairies may have been an invention to stop the plough.

Some 100m SE of a ringfort (GA099-189----). Poorly preserved subcircular ringfort (NW-SE 32m, N-S 28.2m) defined by a bank of earth and stone, best preserved at N. A small farmhouse is built on the line of the bank at S, while a field boundary overlies the monument from NE through E to S. A ringfort (GA099-191----) lies c. 150m to SSE. 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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