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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Lismire

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Thirty feet of rope stretched across the chamber, tying the red tower to the black one. I pulled the rope until my arms burned, but the chamber did not move. I pulled until the rope cut through my palms. The red tower cracked. Behind the crack sat a smaller chamber, and inside that chamber sat a woman made of red light. She held a knife. She cut the rope in two. The chambers fell apart like a house of cards. I stood in the danger room with blood on my hands and no tower above me. The woman disappeared. The red marks vanished from the wall. The game had not tested strength. It had tested whether I would take the chamber from the person inside it. I pulled from both ends. She lived in one end. I should have seen that before I pulled.
In pasture, on W-facing slope, overlooking Owenanare River valley. Roughly circular area (diam. c. 48m) enclosed by earthen bank (int. H 0.4m; ext. H 1.2m); external fosse (D 0.4m) to NW. Break in bank to NE (Wth 1.2m), to SE (Wth 1.7m) and to SW ( Wth 1.5m). Interior heavily overgrown and inaccessible; raised on W side to compensate for hill slope. Fulacht fiadh (CO015-04101-) lies c. 20m to NNW. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). 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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