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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Brachán

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Magic is not dead, it has simply stopped performing for strangers. The fort is a place where the ordinary world thins into possibility. What you discard, it transforms. What you forget, it remembers. This is not fantasy, it is the hidden operating system of the world.
In pasture, on N-facing slope of E-W ridge, overlooking Sullane River valley. Slightly raised circular area (44m E-W; 43m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 0.95m) NE->NW, scarp elsewhere. External fosse survives as slight slope into base of bank. Bank stone-faced externally to NNE and E. Upright stone (H 0.7m; 0.35m x 0.8m), long axis E-W, inside bank to NE. Surrounding field fences removed. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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