What is recorded here
Mentioned in the Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, volume 1, pages 145-146, in 1849. It is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballytarsna, County Kilkenny. The earthworks still stand where human hands shaped them, though the names of those hands have faded.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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