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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rahandrick Upper

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Rahandrick Upper is a 33-metre earthen ring with a 4.2-metre outside ditch, its bank still standing 1.7 metres high at the north and a possible causeway marking the south-east entrance. People called it a fairy fort because the shape appeared complete enough to believe something lived there, yet it is also an earthen ringfort where human hands dug, carried and excluded. The distinction does not matter much when walking its edge at dusk. The ditch still separates inside from outside, the bank still returns what the field swallowed, and the causeway still points to the door someone left open.
In undulating countryside. A circular area (diam. c. 33m) defined by an earthen bank (Wth c. 3.2m, int. H c. 0.3m, ext. H c. 1.7m) best preserved at N, and an external fosse (Wth c. 4.2m). Possible original entrance with causeway at SE. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Laois' (Dublin Stationery Office, 1995) compiled by P. David Sweetman, Olive Alcock and Bernie Moran. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 17 December 2007

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