What is recorded here

Fairy forts are not forts at all, but excluded places where the ordinary rules stop applying. The round shape is a boundary, not a home. The ditch is not a moat, but a line between the world that can be measured and the world that cannot. What is forbidden is not death, but certainty.

In pasture, 500m SE of a townland boundary with Carrow. Depicted on the 1840 ed. OSi 6-inch map as a circular-shaped earthwork that is bisected by a townland boundary separating two parts of Dohora townland. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OSi 25-inch map as a roughly circular-shaped earthwork (53m N-S; 55m E-W) with townland boundary no longer shown. Described in the SMR file as a ditched enclosure. Monument is visible as a roughly circular-shaped tree-lined earthwork on OSi orthophotos taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthophotos taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached Google Earth orthoimages taken 28/06/2018 Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 22 October 2020

A fairy fort in Dohora is an early-medieval ringfort, likely dating to between the 5th and 10th centuries, characterized by a circular earthwork. Local folklore associates such sites with supernatural beings, and they were often considered sacred or inhabited by fairies in Irish tradition.

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