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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Fedamore

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Fedamore's lost ringfort was a 55-metre oval platform with an earthen bank, large enough to hold a small neighbourhood or exclude a dangerous guest. carts and cultivation took most of it, leaving only a south-west ridge and a shadow in modern aerial photos. It is not a mysterious fairy palace, but a human boundary that ordinary life erased.
Enclosure described in 1942-3 as following; 'This consists of an oval platform which had an earthen bank on its edge. The latter is almost entirely gone except for a little distance on the south-west side. There are no traces of it on the north side. The southern end of the monument is completely obliterated. A cart track passes close by on this side and the material of the platform may have been taken for this. There is a step-down just north of the centre, making the northern half of the platform lower than the southern. This step may be accidental as the same feature runs all along the field. It is situate close to the last monument [LI022-095----] described above. The overall diameter is 150' [46m] east-west, and it is 180' [55m] north-south' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 227). Cropmark of enclosure visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 2 March 2020

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