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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilcullen South

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Kilcullen South holds a circular earthen ring, thirty-eight metres across and two metres high, sitting in pasture south of a farmyard. The bank and interior have surrendered to scrub, hiding the shape of the fort beneath green growth. It is a quiet earthwork, old enough to be called a fairy fort, yet simple enough to be a human home or boundary marker lost under time and vegetation.
In pasture, to S of farmyard. Circular area (diam. 38m) defined by earthen bank (H 2m). Bank and interior overgrown with scrub. 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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