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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Baunoge

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy forts are not fantasy. They are human made, often medieval, and still standing. That is the whole trick. The fairies are the part people invented later because the shape resisted explanation. A ring of earth in a field asks the mind to complete it. Some rings held homes. Some rings held nothing but time. Baunoge gives the field its name and the field gives back a shape that may have been a doorway, a trap, or a child's climbing hill. The measurement is small. The life inside the circle is not.
A circular area (diam c. 26.4m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 2.7m; int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 1.2m) and fosse (Wth c. 3.5m) now barely discernible. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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