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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Julianstown East

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible fort remains in Julianstown East, only a ghost circle hidden beneath soil and grass. That absence is the feature. A narrow entrance once admitted people, a wide ditch kept others out, and a round chamber held the lives of those who built it. Forgetting did not erase the shape. It buried the fort, waiting for eyes sharp enough to see what ordinary fields still conceal.
Situated on what might be a rise in a fairly level landscape. The cropmark of a circular enclosure (int. diam. c. 43m N-S; c. 40m E-W) defined by a fosse (Wth c. 3m) is visible only on Apple Maps which utilises a survey conducted by Bluesky International during June 2018. There is an entrance gap (Wth c. 6m) at SE, and much of the interior has been quarried. It is also faintly visible on OSI images (1995) and Google Earth (14/07/2018), and was first reported by Anthony Murphy. See the attached enhanced aerial view from Apple Maps Compiled by: Michael Moore Date of upload: 7 February 2020

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