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Laghtloughlin

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Laghtloughlin is a well-preserved circular rath thirty-six metres across on a gentle Galway rise, its ancient bank now buried beneath a modern field boundary. The clear shape still stands in undulating pastureland while northern rubble and southern gaps suggest human hands keep rewriting its edge. It is the kind of place where ordinary farming and forgotten belief share the same soil.
On a gentle rise in undulating pastureland. Well-preserved roughly circular rath (diam. 36m) defined by a bank that is overlain by a field boundary from NE through E to SE. Gaps at NNE and SSE appear to be modern. Field clearance-rubble obscures the bank at N. (McCaffrey 1952, 203, no. 86) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 13 March 2018

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