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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Coolagowan

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Coolagowan holds a forty-five metre earthen ring that resisted even official measurement because a local owner refused entry. The boundary remains intact, not through forgotten grandeur but through ordinary human pride. That refusal transformed a measurable monument into a living mystery, preserving the fort from clinical description and returning it to the region's imagined depth.
Monument, depicted as embanked sub-circular enclosure (diam. c. 45m) on 1924 OS 6-inch map, was not inspected the landowner refused the Survey permission to inspect this site. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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

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