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Fairy fort / ringfort in Lisnagree

Fairy fort / ringfort

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Quarrying and field banks have chewed the west and south edges of the Lisnagree ringfort, leaving a shallow thirty-four-metre circle in level Galway grassland. The remaining bank, external ditch and western causeway still outline a place where people once entered, lived and departed. What is missing has not vanished; it has scattered into soil, memory and the endless human tendency to take stones elsewhere.
In level grassland. Poorly preserved subcircular rath (E-W 34m, N-S 32m) defined by a bank and external fosse. Traces of a possible outer bank survive at NE. Quarrying has encroached upon the enclosing elements at WSW and from N to E, and a field bank cuts them at S. Entrance causeway at W. 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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