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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Killeline

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Killeline holds a broken earthen ring where a straight field cut through ancient ownership. The scarped edge still stands one metre high beside its shallow fosse, marking a boundary that people drew before roads or counties existed. Cattle now walk the level interior, unaware that they graze inside a forgotten chamber. The missing western wall does not weaken the place; it admits the observer into the circle.
In pasture, on a slight E-facing slope. Roughly circular area (32.1m N-S; 38.4m E-W) defined by a scarped edge (H 1m; Wth 3.05m) with an external fosse (D 0.5m; Wth 1.4m) NNE->NNW; enclosing element truncated by E-W field boundary NNW->NNE. Interior level and under pasture. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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