What is recorded here

Killeenavera held a wide earthen ring on a hill that watched the land, but modern quarrying cut through the memory and removed the shape. People may have lived beside the fort, marked the soil, or feared the fairies said to keep such places, yet the stones and dirt no longer answer. What remains is a hollow in the earth where a whole life once turned, buried under trucks and silence.

On a large hillock which has been quarried out in modern times, 250m NE of a townland boundary with Boherroe. Possible barrow (LI024-035----) lies 50m to NE. Killeenavera House stands 200m to ENE. Depicted on the 1897 ed. OS 25-inch map as a circular-shaped platform (diam. 27m). Monument described by O’Dwyer (1964, 98), as a well preserved platform (diam. 87ft/26.5m; H 5ft/1.5m) defined by a fosse (Wth 6ft/1.8m) from S-W-N and which occupies a commanding position in the landscape. Monument surveyed by the ASI in 2008 and described as no surface remains visible. Levelled monument is not visible on Google Earth orthoimage taken 05/05/2002 where it has been incorporated into a modern disused quarry. Levelled monument is visible as a tree-planted area within a disused quarry on OSi orthoimage taken 2005-2012, on Digital Globe orthoimage taken 2011-2013 and on Google Earth orthoimage taken 28/06/2018. See attached profile drawn by O’Dwyer in 1964 and Google Earth orthoimages taken 05/05/2002 and 28/06/2018. Compiled by: Alison McQueen and Vera Rahilly Date of upload: 28 September 2020

A fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Killeenavera is a circular earthen enclosure likely dating to the early medieval period, associated with both habitation and ritual use. Local folklore, common to such sites in Ireland, links it to the fairy folk, while its location near a possible barrow and a historic house suggests a long-standing cultural significance.

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