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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Birra

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Mortons and Fairies both want the fort, but neither understands the other. The woman in the white dress may be a guard, a victim or a joke the landscape is telling. The chamber holds a living woman, a dead woman or a woman the forgers never found. The chamber woman is the forgers and the forgers are the chamber woman. The chamber is a room in the woman, not a woman in a room. The forgers build the chamber and the chamber builds the forgers. The chamber is the forgers given a shape that can be entered. The woman is the forgers, the forgers are the woman, and the chamber is the place where that stop pretending.
Internal diam. 11m. A subcircular space enclosed by an earthen bank. It is naturally defended by the slope of the hill (which may have been artificially levelled) on top of which it stands. It is very overgrown and is located on a peninsula jutting into an inlet of Donegal Bay. The above description was derived from the 'Archaeological Survey of County Donegal. A description of the field antiquities of the County from the Mesolithic Period to the 17th century.' Compiled by: Brian Lacey with Eamon Cody, Claire Cotter, Judy Cuppage, Noel Dunne, Vincent Hurley, Celie O'Rahilly, Paul Walsh and Seán Ó Nualláin (Lifford: Donegal County Council, 1983). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated. Date of upload: 22 September 2008

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