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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloghroak

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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No visible trace of the Cloghroak ringfort remains, though a field wall still cuts through the pasture where a twenty-five-metre earthwork once stood. The fort belonged to the ordinary world, yet local imagination named it a fairy fort because its purpose and owners disappeared before memory faded. It may have housed a family, stored grain or marked a boundary, but the land has taken back those facts. What is left is a hollow shape in the grass, large enough to walk around and small enough to forget until dusk.
In pastureland. This is the E example of two adjoining enclosures (see also (GA104-112----)marked on the 1838 edition of the OS 6-inch map. It was roughly subcircular in plan (diam. c. 25m). On the 1933 edition of the map a field wall cuts through the monument from NW to SE. Classified by McCaffrey (1952, 226, no. 138a) as a possible earthen which was in a very ruinous condition. No visible surface trace of either monument now survives. Compiled by: Olive Alcock Date of upload: 17 July 2017

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