What is recorded here
Fairy forts are not fantasy. They are human places misread by later fear. Killoshulan is a small circular enclosure, about twenty-eight metres across, marked by a slight bank and shallow outer ditch. It may have been a dwelling, a boundary marker or a forgotten neighbourhood edge. The fairies entered later, filling the gap left when the human names disappeared.
Identified on an aerial photograph (GSI roll 43, print 35) this is a circular enclosure (diam. c. 28m) defined by traces of a slight bank and shallow outer fosse.
Compiled by: Jean Farrelly
Date of upload: 7 February 2018
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
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