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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Knockaun (leitrim By.)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Knockaun holds a faint thirty-metre circular scar in undulating pastureland, perhaps marking a busy human threshold before memory thinned. It is no longer a solid wall but a low boundary the land almost forgot. People may have lived, lost or transformed there, yet the earth keeps that much of the shape without explaining itself.
In undulating pastureland. Very poorly preserved circular rath (diam. 30m) defined by a low scarp. Compiled by: Galway Archaeological Survey, UCG Date of upload: 10 January 2018

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