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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Culleenabohoge

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Situated at the base of the N facing slope of a steep hill in grassland. Depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan map as a circular-shaped enclosure and annotated as a ‘fort’. Ringfort (WM012-019---) 90m to S. This site has been levelled and is visible as a circular patch of vegetation (approx. diam. 35m N-S). The interior slopes from SW to NE and has traces of cultivation ridges aligned E-W. The levelled monument is now bisected by a modern field fence running NE-SW. Visible as a cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photographs taken November 2011. Compiled by: Frank Coyne and Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 15 November 2017
A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Culleenabohoge, likely dating to the early medieval period, is depicted on the 1837 OS Fair Plan as a circular enclosure annotated as a 'fort'. Local tradition associates such sites with fairy folklore, reflecting their mystical and sacred status in Irish cultural history.

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