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Fairy fort / ringfort in Greenville

Fairy fort / ringfort

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You can still see the edge of the fort in the way the grass bends and darkens, even though the bank has almost vanished. It is a small circular place in open Galway fields, and it hides a cut passage beneath the ground. The fort has lost most of its shape, but it has not stopped marking the land.
In undulating grassland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (D c. 20m), known locally as 'the fort'. A curving field bank indicates the line of the monument from SE through S to NW; elsewhere a change in vegetation colour defines it. There is a Man-made underground passage (GA060-106001-) within the interior. 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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