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Rathgrania

Archaeological place

What is recorded here

Rathgrania is a vanished ringfort near Ballintober whose name still carries Gráinne, the fleeing woman from Irish myth. The earthwork may have been a simple farmstead with a hidden stone passage, yet local memory shaped it into a marker of her escape. That pairing of soil and story suggests the place felt large enough, strange enough, or sad enough to keep her name long after its banks faded.
Rathgrania is recorded as a archaeological place in County Mayo. Its open map record supplies this location and any linked names or public references.

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