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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kildaree (ballymoe By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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King's Fort in Kildaree stands thirty-four metres across, with three earth banks and two ditches circling a ridge above a turlough. Its south-east gap faces the living land, while the water below appears and disappears with rain and season. A second ringfort waits one hundred and fifty metres south, as if the ridge held more than one claim.
On a ridge in undulating grassland overlooking a turlough to N. Known locallyas 'The King's Fort', this well-preserved circular rath (D 34m) is defined by three banks and two intervening fosses. There is an entrance at SE. A ringfort (GA006-077----) lies c. 150m to S. 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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