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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Gortaganny (boyounagh Ed)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On a rise in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a circular enclosure (D c. 50m); all that survives of this very poorly preserved ringfort are two banks and an intervening fosse from NW through N to NE. A field wall cuts the monument at NW and NE, to S of which no visible surface trace survives. 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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