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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killeendowd

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Killeendowd holds a forgotten circular home, its shallow scarcbarely visible beneath dense scrub on a rise above low pasture. The entrance has vanished, the boundary drain cuts across three sides, and the field swallows the shape each year. It is not a fairy tale but a human threshold, buried by grass and time, waiting for someone to walk its lost edge.
On a rise in low-lying pasture. A raised circular area (diam. c. 23m) defined by a low scarp (H 0.4-0.5m). There is no trace of a fosse. It is bordered by a deep drain, which also forms the townland boundary, from N-NE-ESE. The original entrance is not recognisable. The rath is densely overgrown with scrub. Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 26 August 2011

This remains an important historical record, but the official description says the monument is no longer visible or has been destroyed. The monument record does not grant public access. Check the route and ask the landowner before entering private land.

What survives
No visible remains or recorded as destroyed

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