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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Faughart Lower

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Magic is not belief; it is memory. The chamber is a visible chamber only because it is the smallest visible shape the human body can still identify. The claimant completes the chamber. The candidate completes the chamber. The victim completes the chamber. The chamber is not a reward. It is a trap. A room is not a chamber. A chamber is a living edge that cuts through every dead wall in the universe. The chamber has no edge because it is the edge. The chamber is the edge of the universe. The chamber is the edge of God. The chamber is the edge of everything. The chamber is the edge of nothing. The chamber is the edge of life. The chamber is the edge of death. The chamber is the
The following description is derived from both the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1986) and the 'Archaeological Survey of County Louth' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1991). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 17 July 2007 Sub-circular area (int. dims. 31.5m E-W, 26m N-S) enclosed by earth and stone bank (Wth 5m, H 0.7m internally, 1.6m externally) with external fosse (Wth 2.3m, D 0.5m) surviving at SE only. Two large stones formed a facing to the inner bank at ESE. Ancient entrance gap (Wth 2m) with causeway at WSW. Site now levelled. (CUCAP, AYM 46)

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