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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Leagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

No visible fort remains in Leagh, though D O'Byrne wrote in 1856 that a rath and burial ground stood westward of Sletty under the name Rath-Kil-an-ure. The earth has taken back its shape, leaving only the name to mark where living people once drew a circle around what they loved.
Unlocated ringfort within townland that is mentioned by D O'Byrne in his History of the Queen's County as 'In Larkfield, westward of Sletty, is a rath and also a burial-ground (LA032-015), known by the name of Rath-Kil-an-ure' (O'Byrne 1856, 35). Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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