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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Leamnaguila

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Leamnaguila holds a vanished ringfort, a circular enclosure thirty metres across that men built on a south-west facing slope. The earth has swallowed the wall, leaving only a shallow depression where shadows gather at dusk. Fairy forts demand silence because they remember the shape of human ambition even when pasture and time erase the stone.
In pasture, on a SW-facing slope. This rath is indicated on the 1894 OS 6-inch map as a roughly circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m). It is levelled and a slightly concave depression (diam. c. 24m) is visible in the area of site. Compiled by: Elizabeth Byrne, Ursula Egan and Sheila Ronan, Archaeological Survey Unit, University College, Cork. Date of upload: 31 January 2011

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