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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Moatfarrell

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Moatfarrell, County Longford. A ringfort, perhaps a dwelling or a trap for wandering thought. Two earth banks and two ditches enclose a circular space forty-five metres across on a northwest-facing pasture slope. The southeast entrance faces the dying light. Grass and forgetting have done their work; the fort disappears except in the pressure beneath the foot and the shape the mind refuses to release.
On a NW-facing slope in pasture. A report in 1975 (SMR file) recorded a raised circular area (diam. c. 45m) enclosed by two banks of earth and stone and two fosses. The original entrance was probably at SE. Not visible at ground level. (CUCAP, ALV 2) Compiled by: Patrick F. O'Donovan Date of upload: 17 January 2012

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