What is recorded here
Mogeely Lower holds a rounded earthen fort, local memory naming it a fairy fort rather than a human home. That boundary between invention and record keeps the place alive, because people still imagine life inside the ridge instead of reducing it to a dead marker.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
Mogeely Church (in Ruins)Church · 498 yd
Frankfort Housecountry house · 609 yd
Settlement desertedSettlement deserted, medieval · 1088 yd
Graveyard in Curraheen (kinnatalloon By.)Graveyard · 1752 yd
CastleCastle, unclassified · 1.3 mi
Fulacht fia in GlasshouseFulacht fia · 1.5 mi
Castlebrook forestWood · 1.6 mi
Tallow HillMountain / peak · 3.2 mi
Aghern CemeteryWood · 3.7 mi
Mocollop Picnic SitePicnic place · 4.3 mi
Salt HillMountain / peak · 4.5 mi