What is recorded here

Fairy forts are no such thing. They are ordinary ringforts, built by ordinary people, doing ordinary business under skies no longer watched. The label is a gift of imagination, not a claim of fact. Under that lens, Carrigeen becomes a chamber where the dead still breathe, where the boundary between life and death thins like skin in winter. What we call magic is often memory stripped of its name. The chamber does not need fairy labels to be strange. It is strange because it is old, because it is forgotten, because it is still standing when everything around it has changed. That is enough.

In pasture on SW facing slope. Roughly circular area (56.4m N-S; 46.4m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (H 1.5m) with external fosse (Wth 1.75m, D 1m). A road runs through the centre of the site with pine trees planted in the W half of the site. No entrance feature visible. (Shaw Rev. 1971, 57) The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Offaly' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 23 May 2011

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