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Indicated

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Indicated is a circular rath on a Galway hillside, its earthen bank partly swallowed by a field wall and its centre lost beneath years of growth. The fort measures twenty-four metres across, small enough to walk in moments yet large enough to hold a life. It sits on a sloping field where people still grow food, suggesting the fort watched over labour long before it became a ruin. What happened inside remains hidden, but the shape endures, marking a place where someone drew a line around the world and called it their own.
On the SW-facing slope of a hillock in tillage. This poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 24m) is defined by a bank (H 1.1m; Wth 2.5m) which is encircled by a field wall; at N the bank is incorporated into the field wall. On inspection the interior was totally overgrown and inaccessible. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 14 June 2019

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