What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Milltown (knocktopher By.) is a rath, an earthen ringfort in County Kilkenny. The earth may have marked a boundary, a home or a warning, yet the fort still carries the fairy name. People may have lived there, feared it or simply avoided it.

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