What is recorded here

That is a fairy fort in Killeen, Crannagh By., County Kilkenny. It is an earthen ringfort with a single bank and ditch, about thirty metres across, still standing among briars and nearby ancient enclosures. People may have lived, hidden or worshipped there before the land was forgotten, but no exact name or date has survived. The circle remains clear enough to imagine inside, even when history refuses to speak plainly.

Indicated on the 1st (1839) ed. OS 6-inch map and on the 1900 revision as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 32m). The monument was inspected in November 1955 and was described being, 'a reasonably good ring-fort (single bank and ditch), very much overgrown with briars. Diameter about 100' [c. 30m]. The bank is fairly high & massive' (OPW correspondence files, November 1955). There is a ringfort (KK018-058----) c. 150m to the NE and another (KK018-056----) c. 270m to the WNW and an enclosure (KK018-055----) c. 385m to the SW. Compiled by: Jean Farrelly Date of upload: 2 July 2020

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