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Fairy fort / ringfort in Turloughgarve

Fairy fort / ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible bank survives from NE through E to SE because a field wall cut through the monument, yet the 45m subcircular shape still holds on the Galway rise. Two hollows and a central mound of earth and stone remain inside, possibly upcast from digging or building. The fort has been halved by ordinary farm work, but it never stopped being a place where someone shaped the land and lived with the result.
On a rise in gently undulating grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (NNW-SSE 45m) defined by a bank, no visible surface trace of which survives from NE through E to SE where a field wall cuts the monument. A second field wall overlies the enclosing element at NW. Within the interior are two subcircular hollows; centrally placed between them is a low mound of earth and stone, possibly upcast. 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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Recorded monument

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