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Indicated

Fairy fort / stone ringfort

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Indicated is a fairy fort on a Galway rise where a thirty-metre circular enclosure once stood. By 1983 only a twenty-centimetre mound and faint wall traces remained beside boulders and bushes. The land has taken back most of the shape, leaving behind a small ridge that still marks the forgotten boundary.
On a rise in undulating pastureland. Marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure planted with trees/bushes (diam. c. 30m). On inspection in February 1983 all that survived was a low mound (H c. 0.2m) at N and E. Traces of wall revetment (Wth 1.7m) survived. The interior was planted with bushes and strewn with boulders. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 18 April 2019

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