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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Arranagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Denis Power documented the Arranagh ringfort in 2011, revealing a thirty-six-metre circular enclosure where earthen banks still rise three metres above the level pasture. The eastern gap, widened by dumped rubble, leads into a chamber choked with briars rather than open grass. This is not a polite museum piece but a broken boundary where human ambition collided with earthly resistance. The fairies never left; they simply stopped pretending the fort belonged to anyone else.
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. c. 36m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.7m; ext. H 3m) with external fosse (Wth 2m; D 1.6m). Gap (Wth 1.8m) in bank at E where rubble has been dumped into fosse. Interior level and overgrown with briars. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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