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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloheen (carbery East (e.d.) By., Kilgarriff Par.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Cloheen presents a perfect 28-metre circle on a gentle north-facing slope, now buried beneath tillage and ordinary farm life. The earth has forgotten its purpose, yet the shape remains clear enough to suggest a fort, a boundary, or a chamber where human days once turned into myth. What is missing is not the wall but the witness: the people who stood inside it, breathed in it, and disappeared into the story now called fairy.
In tillage, on gentle N-facing slope. Circular area (28m N-S; 28m E-W) defined by low rise. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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