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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Cloonmore

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Marianne Phelan, a young mother of three, stood at the edge of Cloonmore field in 1907. She touched the rough earth bank and felt a tremor beneath her feet. The ground swallowed her sandals, then her knees, then her waist. She vanished without a cry. Her children ran home screaming. They never saw Marianne again, but they kept a bowl of porridge on the field every morning for thirty years.
This monument is subject to a preservation order made under the National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2014 (PO no. 19/1956).

The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

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