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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballykenny

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Ballykenny, County Limerick: a 30m earthen ring with a shallow outside ditch, half of its boundary still standing in open pasture. The flat middle feels made for standing room, firelight or argument, while the small neat hole in the north-east quadrant suggests a jar, a post or a forgotten offering. Cattle may have walked it for centuries, yet the circle still reads as a choice rather than a mistake.
In level pasture. Circular area (diam. 30m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1m; ext. H 2m) with external fosse (D 1m; Wth 1.5m) NW->SW; enclosing element levelled SW->NW. Level interior under rough pasture but covered by overgrowth along fringes. In NE quadrant is roughly circular depression (diam. 2m; D 1m). Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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