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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Moohane,dromin (iraghticonnor By., Killehenny Ed)

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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No visible monument remains at Moohane, dromin except a low semi-circular earthen bank, much reduced and cut through by later fieldbanks. It is listed as a fairy fort or ringfort about twenty metres across, the kind of shallow earthwork that could have enclosed a homestead, a byre or a boundary marker in a working landscape. The fairy name may be later folklore layered onto an ordinary place, but the earth itself still holds the shape of a choice made long before the field was divided.
Internal diameter c 20m N-S Situated in the middle of a large pastoral field, this site is now much levelled and has been cut to the W by a fieldbank running NE-SE and to the N by one running NW-SW. All that remains today is a low, wide semi-circular earthen bank that measures .7m externally and .4m above the interior. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 243. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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