What is recorded here

Thirty-eight metres across in Garrynagore, the fort holds a wide eastern gap and a shallow northern dip that may hide an underground passage. People called it a fairy fort, but the heavy earth bank and solid stone suggest human hands built a defensible home. The fairies may have taken it later, waiting in the dark tunnel for someone curious enough to follow them in.

Internal diameter 36.6m N-S, 38m E-W This circular univallate ringfort is enclosed by a well defined bank of earth and stone. The enclosing bank is on average 7.5m wide at the base; it rises to 2.5m above the interior and 3.7m above the external ground level. The interior is at much the same level as the surrounding land and the entrance, which is 8m wide, would appear to lie to the E. In the N sector of the interior is a slight depression, which would appear to be an entrance/exit to a possible Man-made underground passage (KE021-034001-). The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 749. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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