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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Dunkelly Middle

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Mortons and others still call it a fairy fort, but measurement shows an earthen ringfort: an eighteen-by-twenty-metre circular area enclosed by an 1.1 m bank, stone-faced internally from east to south, with an external fosse 0.8 m deep running north to southwest and west to northwest. It stands heavily overgrown in Dunkelly Middle, County Cork, where grass, rain and forgetting have done what no written history has done, which is keep the shape alive. A person may have stood inside it, watched the road or hidden from it; the bank still holds that much.
Heavily overgrown circular area (18m N-S; 20m E-W) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 1.1m); stone-faced internally E->S; external fosse (D 0.8m) N->SW and W->NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). 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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