What is recorded here

Fairy forts are often called forts because they look like abandoned military works, but the name preserves older belief that they belong to unseen residents. Toanreagh is one of those lost ringforts, recorded on an 1842 map and now absent from the land. Its disappearance does not make it less real; it makes the landscape harder to read. The earth may have swallowed the boundary, or people may have stopped seeing it. In either case the fort remains a warning that visibility is not the same as truth.

This circular enclosure is marked on the 1842 OS map and lies SW of the previous two sites (KE014-028----, KE014-043----). It does not appear on the later edition and no surface trace survives. The above description is derived from C. Toal, ‘North Kerry Archaeological Survey’. Dingle. Brandon in association with FAS Training and Employment Authority (1995), no. 501. In certain instances the entries have been revised and updated in the light of recent research. Date of upload: 2 August 2013

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