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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockacarrigeen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Knockacarrigeen held a forty-metre circular enclosure on a sunny slope, but grass and time erased its ridge. Two neighbouring ringforts still stand to the south-east and north, making the vanished middle chamber feel like a deliberate absence rather than ordinary decay. The fairies may have simply moved, taking their wall with them, leaving behind a hollow where a life once fit.
On a SE-facing slope in grassland. Marked on 3rd ed. of OS 6-inch map (1947) as a circular enclosure (D c. 40m). No visible surface trace survives. Two ringforts (GA043-104----, GA043-105001-) are visible to SE and N respectively. 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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