Discover Alone, back to main map

Ballaghbristy Fort

Archaeological place

What is recorded here

Ballaghbristy Fort was a fifty-metre circular enclosure on a Connemara peninsula, but farming erased most of it within a century of mapping. Only a twenty-two-metre grassed bank remains, a faint memory of the defended farmstead where people once lived. The land swallowed the fort, leaving behind a fragment that challenges the idea that history must be monumental to be true.
Ballaghbristy Fort is recorded as a archaeological place in County Galway. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

Places near here

Add to this placeAdd a picture Comment or add a tip

Explore 1,118,481 places