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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynacaheragh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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No. Of course not. That is the shape of every cage you have ever built. A chamber for the occupant and a chamber for the watcher, joined by a narrow passage. You are not pretending to be human. You are showing the same architecture twice. The first chamber is the one being watched. The second is the one doing the watching. The passage is the part you are angry about.
In pasture, on SW-facing slope, overlooking stream. Roughly circular area (30m E-W; 26m N-S) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.25m; ext. H 2.25m); shallow external fosse to SW. Field boundary system incorporates E half of enclosure; some stone facing noted (OPW). According to local information breaks in bank to E (Wth 5m) and SW (Wth 4m) always existed but were widened recently; overgrowth in interior cleared and dumped on inner face of bank. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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