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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Rathnee

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

What is recorded here

Marianne stood in the white field, staring at the faint circular shadow where the fort disappeared. She wanted to believe the boundary still existed because the land had not forgotten the shape of the people who lived there.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Depicted as hachured circular enclosure (diam. c. 30m) on 1842 OS 6-inch map; as hachured roughly circular raised area (diam. c. 30m) on 1937 OS 6-inch map. Levelled; low rise visible in area of site. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 4: North Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 2000). In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload/revision: 14 January 2009

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