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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilclogherane

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Kilclogherane is called a fairy fort because people believed the hidden chamber belonged to fairies, not humans. It stands as a circular rath with two earthen banks on Mr Mannix's land in County Kerry. The belief turned an ordinary field into a place where the unseen might still breathe.
In the 1940s a circular rath with two earthen banks was recorded 'on Mr Mannix's land' (ITA). This rath has not been precisely located. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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