What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Moohane is a circular earth platform beside the River Camogue, measured at eighty feet across and still visible from above. Most of the outer bank has vanished, leaving only northern and southern fragments to mark the boundary of a place nobody entered through a known gate. The name suggests people once believed fairies lived there, yet the shape and size match a human ringfort built for residence or defence. Both ideas can be true: humans made the circle, then forgot how it began and gave the uncertainty to fairies.

Earthwork described in 1943 as following; 'This is a circular platform of earth surrounded by a fosse and outer bank. Most of the outer bank is gone except for short distances on the north and south sides. The entrance is not recognisable. The height of the mound over the fosse bottom is 8' [2.4m] and the overall diameter of the monument is 264' [80m]. The structure is situated in a low land marsh meadow on the bank of the River Camogue' (O'Kelly 1942-3, 183). The outline of the monument is clearly visible today on Digital Globe aerial photographs. Compiled by: Caimin O'Brien Date of upload: 27 February 2020

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