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Indicated

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Indicated is a broken circular cashel on a Galway slope, its stone wall collapsed into rubble while a field wall cuts through the ancient line. The shape still suggests a fort, but human hands have rearranged half of it. What remains is a boundary marker more than a home, reminding that even abandoned places continue changing under ordinary use.
On a S-facing slope in grassland. Poorly preserved circular cashel (D 24.5m) defined from NNE through S to WSW by a drystone wall, now reduced to a spread of rubble. Elsewhere a degraded scarp forms the enclosing element. A field wall cuts the monument at NNE and SSW. An enclosure (GA056-105----) lies c. 120mtoESE. 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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