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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Gardenfield

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort
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On a gentle SW-facing slope in grassland. Marked on OS 6-inch maps as a conjoined enclosure, each c. 30m in diameter. No visible surface trace survives of either N or S enclosure but a souterrain (GA029-080002-) is associated with N one. The lonument is referred to by Costello (1903, 4) as a 'double fort'. (Killanin and Duignan 1967, 448) 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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