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Rooanaphuca Fort

Fairy fort / stone ringfort
Rooanaphuca Fort
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Twenty-eight metres of forgotten stone circle the rock outcrop at Cuildooish, though modern field boundaries now cut cleanly through its western and eastern edges. Generations of farmers piled cleared rubble against the southern side, burying the last visible traces of the dry-stone wall that once defined the settlement. The name Rooanaphuca still carries the shadow of the púca, hinting that locals long suspected the ruin belonged to something sharper than ordinary human history.
In rock outcrop. Very poorly preserved subcircular cashel (27.7m E-W) defined by a collapsed drystone wall. The townland field boundary cuts across the monument at WSW and ENE and field-clearance rubble obscures the enclosing element to the S of it. (McCaffrey 1952, 193, no. 56) Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 4 December 2017

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