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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Camlisk More,lackan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Half the ring is gone now, smoothed into the field, but the eastern half still stands as a low circle of earth and stone at the foot of the hill. People called it a fairy fort, perhaps because the true purpose had faded or because the shape felt older than human patience. A field drain cuts through the middle, dividing the two townlands and breaking the circle into two unequal lives. What entered the place, what left it, and when the western half disappeared are no longer written anywhere visible.
Close to the base of a SE-facing hill. A raised circular area (diam. 27.9m) enclosed by a low bank of earth and stone (Wth 4.1m; H 0.4m) with a shallow external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.2m). It is divided into roughly equal portions by a NNW-SSE field drain, which marks the division between the two townlands. The portion to the WSW has been largely levelled and only its outline is identifiable. The original entrance is not recognisable. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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