What is recorded here
Kilfelim holds a faded ringfort where human hands shaped earth into a circle before memory vanished. The fairies may have inherited the hole, but people dug it first. That much is written in the curve of the bank and the patience of its stones.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Kilfelim ChurchArchaeological place · 244 yd
Site of Kilfelim ChurchChurch · 257 yd
O'Connell Bridgebridge · 1712 yd
Catholic Church of the Immaculate Conceptionchurch/chapel · 1.1 mi
CastleCastle, ringwork · 3.2 mi
Ballygamboon Forest Recreation AreaWood · 6.6 mi
Common AlderCommon Alder · 6.7 mi
Famine MemorialMemorial · 8.8 mi
Kerry 2nd Brigade of the Irish Republican ArmyMemorial · 9.1 mi