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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Kilpatrick (kinalmeaky By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Mortons and Patsyms: An unseen ring of thirty-two metres in diameter circles a quiet pasture slope, waiting for human eyes to remember its shape.
In pasture, on N-facing slope of E-W ridge. Circular enclosure (diam. c. 32m) on OS 6-inch map (1842). No visible surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 1: West Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1992). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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