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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Caherelly East

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Caherelly East holds a broken ring where human hands built a home before memory faded. The earthen bank still marks a circular space wide enough for a household, yet the surrounding field has softened its edges until the fort resembles a scar rather than a wall. People may have lived inside that small circle, raised children, and forgotten the name of the first stone laid there. The fairies in the local name do not dismiss the humans; they preserve the loss.
In rough, level pasture with coniferous plantation to N. Circular area (dims. 19.5m N-S; 20m E-W) defined by earthen bank (Wth 13.3m; int. H 0.5m; ext. H 1.9m) almost reduced in places to a scarp, with an external fosse (basal Wth 3.65m; total Wth 14.35m; D 0.6m). Possible entrance (basal Wth 5m; total Wth 10m) at ESE. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 14 November 2013

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