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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballynaskea

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort, a place of transformation or a trap for the unwary. The chamber holds a visible chamber and a hidden chamber. The visible chamber shows a circular room with a flat floor and a ceiling that moves like a shallow bowl. The hidden chamber is a descending tube beneath the floor. The floor is not a solid surface in the hidden part. It is asiege of falling water that never reaches the bottom. The chamber has no door because the chamber is inside the person who enters it. The chamber uses the person's own body as its wall. The chamber shows the person's memories as a film on the wall. The chamber takes one memory at a time. The chamber gives back one marble of light. The marble is a memory that the chamber has changed into a shape the person can hold. The chamber does not hide. It waits for a person willing to lose one memory and receive one marble.
Situated at the N edge of the valley of a small W-E stream that is c. 70m to the S. The cropmark of a circular enclosure defined by an inner (diam. c. 35m) and outer (diam. c. 55m) fosse features is visible on aerial imaged (ME048-045_1 to _3) taken in July 2018. The inner feature appears to be entire but the outer is D-shaped, backing onto the scarp down to the valley floor. It is not visible on any other aerial images. Compiled by: Michael Moore on details provided by Noel and Conor Murphy. Date of upload: 7 August, 2018

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