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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloghatrida

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Cloghatrida held a thirty-metre embanked ring on a sunny slope above the marsh, visible in 1841 but erased before human memory faded. The fairies kept their fort by refusing the shovel, or the miners took the stones for lead and silver, leaving only a uneven field where the boundary disappeared. What remains is a hole in the landscape, a circle the earth forgot, and the marsh below still breathes through the gap like a living thing.
In pasture, on S-facing slope, overlooking marshy area. Monument, depicted on 1841 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Uneven surface of field in this area probably due to abandoned silver and lead mines. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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