Enclosure in Fanningstown (smallcounty By.) — Report the wrong picture

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Irish folklore consistently features female spirits in domestic roles, suggesting women participated in every aspect of village life. The claim that exclusively male castles and female hags populate these stories reflects modern assumption rather than textual evidence.

Monument described in 1943 as following; 'This fort on plan is shaped like the long section of an egg, that is, oval with one end broad and the other narrow. It consists of a fosse inside which is a bank. The latter bears traces of a stone facing on the outside. The interior is a level space higher than the field outside. The entrance is near the broad end on the east side. There is a sloping causeway leading out across the fosse. Running north-south across the northern half of the interior is a very collapsed stone wall. Length 156' [47.5m]. Max. width 126' [38.4m] overall' (O'Kelly 1943, 226). Described by Doody (2008, 131) as a 'oval enclosure, c. 50m x 40m'; the morphology of this enclosure indicates that it may be Bronze Age in date (ibid.). Compiled by: Denis Power Revised by: Caimin O'Brien Date of revised upload: 03 January 2019

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