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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Bunalunn

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Mortons and company, including the director, have taken the offer. They leave the studio at dawn, carrying every file and tool they can fit into two cases. The owner stands behind them in the rain, certain the chamber will collapse without their hands. By noon the chamber is empty, but the ceiling has not fallen. It waits for the next foolish man who believes it needs company to exist.
In pasture, on NW-facing slope. Heavily overgrown circular area (c. 30m NE-SW) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.2m), with external fosse (D 0.7m). Bank overgrown, gap to S. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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