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Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Tinageragh

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort

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Fairy fort in Tinageragh, County Cork: a ringfort rath, roughly circular, about thirty metres east-west and twenty-five north-south on a north-facing pasture slope. In 1842 it was still visible enough to draw; now only a shallow depression runs northeast to southeast, the rest erased or hidden. People may have lived there, marked it, forgotten it, or refused to believe it was anything but a hollow in the ground.
In pasture, on N-facing slope. Shown on 1842 OS 6-inch map as roughly circular enclosure (c. 30m E-W; c. 25m N-S). Levelled; shallow depression visible running NNE->SE; no other surface trace. The above description is derived from the published 'Archaeological Inventory of County Cork. Volume 2: East and South Cork' (Dublin: Stationery Office, 1994). 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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