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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballyduhig

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not abandomed human homes, they are active edge places where the invisible world still lives. The circle must stay unbroken, unmarked and unmapped. People died everywhere they forced entry or treated the hidden as fantasy. The field is not empty, it is occupied.
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 22m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.2m; ext. H 0.7m) with external fosse (D 0.4m; Wth 1.2m). Field boundary skirts outer edge of fosse S->SSE. Interior rises up gently towards centre. Entire site under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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