
What is recorded here
Fairy forts are not fairy forts at all. They are ordinary ringforts, built by ordinary people, renamed because the truth became inconvenient. The field is no longer a farm. The chamber is no longer a home. The people are no longer worth remembering. So the story changed its shape and continued.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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Church (in ruins)Church · 1.1 mi
Rinevella PointHeadland · 1.1 mi
Cloonconeen PointHeadland · 1.6 mi
Knocknagarhoon CastleRuins · 3.0 mi
Grave of the Yellow MenMemorial · 3.4 mi
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