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Fairy fort / stone ringfort in Ballynascragh

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Under the grass of Ballynascragh lies a forty-metre stone circle, reduced now to two stubborn boulders at the western edge. They mark the ghost of a wall that once held back the pasture, perhaps guarding hearths and children before the land swallowed the fort whole. The fairness in its name suggests people believed the stones belonged to others, yet human hands built the ring.
In reclaimed pastureland. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 216, no. 76a) as a very ruinous circular ‘Stone fort’ (diam. c. 40.2m). Apart from two earthfast boulders at W, which may have formed part of the enclosing wall, no visible surface trace survives. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 5 January 2017

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