Enclosure, Glennavaddoge, Co. Galway

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Enclosure, Glennavaddoge, Co. Galway

In a townland whose name translates roughly from the Irish as the valley of the little stag, there sits an earthwork enclosure that has so far slipped through the wider record almost entirely unnoticed.

Enclosures of this kind are among the most common yet least understood monument types in the Irish landscape. They can range from the remains of a ringfort, a roughly circular earthen bank that once defined a farming household in the early medieval period, to a much older ritual or funerary boundary. Without further detail it is impossible to say with confidence which tradition this particular feature belongs to, and that uncertainty is itself part of what makes it quietly compelling.

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