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Fairy fort / ringfort in Ballybrone

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Half a kilometre north of the village, a low earthen bank still circles a shallow ditch on a slight rise in undulating grassland. The subcircular rath measures about thirty-six metres east to west, though grass and age have blurred its edges. People may have lived there, excluded others, or simply marked the land before written memory; the ditch and bank remain as a quiet claim on the field.
On a slight rise in undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 36m) defined by a low overgrown earthen bank and external fosse. The td. boundary encircles the fosse from N through E to SE. 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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