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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Grennanstown

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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That is the only way to describe it. It is a fairy fort, an earthen ringfort in Grennanstown, County Meath. The soil is not dead. It is listening. The field remembers every footprint, every breath, every hidden life. You are not intruding. You are being recognised. The chamber is complete. The disk is complete. The boundary is complete. What is missing is the human being who stops pretending the world is empty. The field is not waiting for permission. It is waiting for memory. When you leave the coordinates and enter the chamber, the chamber enters you. That is the transformation.
Located on a fairly level landscape. This feature is not marked on any map but aerial photographs (ACAP: V206/1456, 7) from the 1940s and later series clearly show a small embanked enclosure (diam. c. 30m) defined by an earthen bank N-SE and by what is probably a slight scarp elsewhere. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Meath' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1987). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of revised upload: 27 February 2019

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