What is recorded here
Moyarta West holds a earthen ringfort, a circular defence built by human hands but renamed by local imagination. The fairies took the fort when people stopped fearing it, or perhaps they never left it at all. Either way, the earth remembers shape before history, and the boundary between living and dead becomes a wall you can walk around.
The Archaeological Survey of Ireland (ASI) is in the process of providing information on all monuments on The Historic Environment Viewer (HEV). Currently the information for this record has not been uploaded. To access available information for research purposes please make an appointment in advance with the Archive Unit (open Fridays 10.00 am – 5.00 pm), Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage, The Custom House, Dublin 1 D01W6XO or email NMarchive@housing.gov.ie.
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- What survives
- Recorded monument
Places near here
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