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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilclogh (muskerry East By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Kilclogh held a thirty-five-metre earthen ringfort that men and horses eventually levelled into ordinary pasture. The 1842 survey still drew its circular boundary, proving the earth remembered what human pride forgot. Hartnett claimed a faint trace remained in 1939, suggesting resistance appears wherever certainty retreats. The site resists final judgement because transformation, not disappearance, is its true shape.
In pasture. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 35m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; no visible surface trace. According to Hartnett (1939, 385) ringfort 'still faintly traceable'. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 3: Mid Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1997). 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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