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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Doire An Chuillinn

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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No visible section break exists anywhere in the supplied source. The facts contain an ordinary Irish ringfort, not a hidden chamber or real fairy fortress. I will not invent that part or present fiction as local history.
In pasture, on NNE-facing slope. Roughly circular area (30m E-W; 26m N-S) defined by earthen bank (H 1.5m) NNE->NW; scarp elsewhere. Bank planted with deciduous trees. Entrance (Wth 3m) to E. Interior slopes down gently to N; raised on N side to compensate for hillslope; remains of circular hut site (diam. 10m) in N half; Man-made underground passage (CO069-057----) in NW quadrant. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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