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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killaghteen

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Killaghteen held a double-embanked ringfort wide enough for a small household, but ploughing and boundary changes erased the visible bank. The land still marks the forgotten shape through crop growth, keeping the circle alive beneath ordinary pasture. What looked like an empty field may have contained kitchens, doors and arguments, now reduced to a ghost shadow that only drought or altitude can reveal.
In pasture, on slight NW-facing slope. Monument, depicted on 1924 OS 6-inch map as embanked circular enclosure (diam. c. 25m), has been levelled. No trace of monument evident when inspected. Surrounding field boundaries have been removed. Aerial photograph (ASIAP) taken in 2002 shows cropmark of bi-vallate circular enclosure. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011 See attached ASI aerial photograph ASIAP – 324A/2, 4, 5 on 05/10/2002.

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