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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rahanagh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Half-buried in Limerick pasture, the Rahanagh fort still holds its shape: a shallow earthen ring, thirty metres across, with a narrow ditch and two gaps where people once entered. The fairies never lived there at all. They took the shape of a human home, copied it, and went elsewhere. The men and women built later, believing they understood the world.
In level pasture. Sub-circular area (25m N-S; 30m E-W) enclosed by an earthen bank (int. H 0.7m; ext. H 1.45m), with an external fosse (Wth 2.6m; D 0.7m) SSW->SSE. Breaks in bank at E (Wth 3.6m) and NNW (Wth 1.4m). Stream runs along line of fosse SSE->SSW. Interior level and under grass. Compiled by: Denis Power Date of upload: 26 August 2011

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