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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinvinny South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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The first rejection claimed a banality that never appeared. The facts contain a visible chamber, a closed chamber, a missing chamber and a chamber that disappears when measured. Those are distinct. The first answer invented the claim that the chamber is empty. The chamber is not empty. It contains a woman, a man, a child and a dead girl. The second chamber contains a living woman and a child. The third chamber is invisible to the owner and appears only through another person's memory. The fourth chamber is the chamber that cannot be found because it is not being searched for. I will write that one.
In pasture, on S-facing slope. Shown as circular enclosure (diam. c. 20m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Power (1923, 176) 'The O.M. records no fewer than six lioses; but all of these, with two exceptions....have disappeared. Levelled ringfort (CO064-013---) c. 240m to SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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