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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Abbeymahon

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy forts hide in plain sight, wearing pasture and forgetting their own names. That is why the fort in Abbeymahon vanished without a trace. It did not collapse or burn. It stopped being a fort and became a field. The people inside may have done the same. They stopped being remembered and became the region. West Cork is full of these quiet transformations. What looks like empty countryside may be a chamber where human life has finished speaking and begun dreaming. The sea still moves against that coast. The field still holds the shape of what it swallowed. To walk past it is not to lose it. It is to enter the part of the story where the characters stop resisting and become the world.
In pasture, on NW-facing slope, extensive view to SW, NW and N, overlooking sea to SW. Levelled, no visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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