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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Carnane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No fairy ever touched the place. The name is a label for an unknown shape, and the unknown shape is a sixty-four-metre ring in ordinary Limerick soil. A narrow causeway crosses black water on the east side, leading to a flat place where people may have lived, buried things, forgotten things, or simply passed through. The rest is not mystery but measurement: a ring, a gap, a wet ditch, and time.
Enclosure described in 1943 as following; 'This is a platform on the edge of which is a slight bank. Outside is a fosse, which is water-logged. The entrance is on the east side, from which a causeway runs out across the fosse. The overall diameter is 210' [64m]. The bank and fosse are densely overgrown. It is situated in fairly good low-land' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 223). The outline of the monument is visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 28 February 2020

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