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Fairy fort / ringfort in Knockdoemore (lackaghbeg Ed)

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Knockdoemore holds a thirty-five metre circular rath on a gentle south-facing Galway slope, its bank and outside ditch still drawing a clear line across the grass. The eastern gap may mark the original entrance, inviting people into a space where the boundary between human residence and fairy trickery becomes porous. Whatever life occurred inside, the earth preserved the shape while memory faded, leaving a quiet chamber where imagination can still occupy the absence.
On a gentle S-facing slope in grassland. Circular rath (D 35m), in fair condition, defined by a bank and external fosse. A gap at E, though modern, may have given original access. 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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