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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Gortmolire

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Forty feet of rope stretched across the sky, unbroken. Anka ran her fingers along the length, counting knots, measuring distance the way her grandmother measured bread dough. Three days she pulled, adjusted, pulled again. On the fourth morning the rope tightened, sang flat and clear, and dropped her into a room where a young man sat waiting beside a cup of tea. His name was Rowan. He had been lost for thirty years. She brought him home before dinner.
In pasture, atop hill. Depicted as hachured roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; slight depression visible in area of site. According to local information, field called the fort field. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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